什么是OXM?
OXM是Object-to-XML-Mapping的缩写,它是一个O/M-mapper,将java对象映射成XML数据,或者将XML数据映射成java对象。它类似 XML-Marshalling 或者是 XML-Serialization,并不是什么新技术。目前Spring framework 3.0引入了该特性。
现在让我们看看Spring的承诺:
- 易于配置
- 一致的接口
- 一致的异常层次结构
听起来很不错,因为没有喜欢杂乱的接口,繁琐的配置,现在就让我们来检验一下Spring OXM的设计思想,本文着重讲述OXM特性的使用方法。
OXM in Spring 3.0
我们以一个Maven2实例工程来进行说明。首先,创建一个pom.xml文件:
<project> <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion> <groupId>com.unitedcoders.examples</groupId> <artifactId>SpringOxmExample</artifactId> <packaging>jar</packaging> <version>1.0.0-SNAPSHOT</version> <name>SpringOxmExample</name> <url>http://united-coders.com</url> <build> <finalName>SpringOxmExample</finalName> <plugins> <!-- Compiler Plugin to compile on Java 1.6 --> <plugin> <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId> <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId> <configuration> <compilerVersion>1.6</compilerVersion> <fork>true</fork> <source>1.6</source> <target>1.6</target> </configuration> </plugin> </plugins> </build> <!-- Properties --> <properties> <spring-version>3.0.0.RELEASE</spring-version> </properties> <!-- Dependencies --> <dependencies> <!-- Spring framework --> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-core</artifactId> <version>${spring-version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-beans</artifactId> <version>${spring-version}</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>org.springframework</groupId> <artifactId>spring-oxm</artifactId> <version>${spring-version}</version> </dependency> <!-- Castor Xml --> <dependency> <groupId>org.codehaus.castor</groupId> <artifactId>castor</artifactId> <version>1.2</version> </dependency> <dependency> <groupId>xerces</groupId> <artifactId>xercesImpl</artifactId> <version>2.9.1</version> </dependency> <!-- Logging --> <dependency> <groupId>commons-logging</groupId> <artifactId>commons-logging</artifactId> <version>1.1.1</version> </dependency> <!-- Test dependencies --> <dependency> <groupId>junit</groupId> <artifactId>junit</artifactId> <version>4.4</version> <scope>test</scope> </dependency> </dependencies> </project>
该实例中我用到了三个spring 模块,spring-core,spring-beans以及spring-oxm。另外,我使用Castor工程和Apache Xerces作为XML-Marshalling-dependencies.
接着,创建一个简单的javabean,将被序列换成XML字符串:
package com.unitedcoders.examples.spring.oxm.beans;
public class Person {
private String firstname;
private String lastname;
private boolean developer;
public String getFirstname() {
return firstname;
}
public void setFirstname(String firstname) {
this.firstname = firstname;
}
public String getLastname() {
return lastname;
}
public void setLastname(String lastname) {
this.lastname = lastname;
}
public boolean isDeveloper() {
return developer;
}
public void setDeveloper(boolean developer) {
this.developer = developer;
}
}
然后,为O/X-Mapper创建一个接口:
package com.unitedcoders.examples.spring.oxm.mapper;
import java.io.IOException;
public interface OxMapper {
/**
* Serializes assigned Object into a file with the assigned name.
*
* @param object
* - Object that should be serialized
* @param filename
* - name of the XML-file
* @throws IOException
*/
public abstract void writeObjectToXml(Object object, String filename) throws IOException;
/**
* Deserializes an object from the assigned file.
*
* @param filename
* - name of the file that should be deserialized
* @return deserialized object
* @throws IOException
*/
public abstract Object readObjectFromXml(String filename) throws IOException;
}
我定义了两个方法,一个将对象转化成xml文件,一个将xml文件转换成对象。以下是该接口的实现类:
package com.unitedcoders.examples.spring.oxm.mapper;
import java.io.FileInputStream;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamSource;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;
import org.springframework.oxm.Marshaller;
import org.springframework.oxm.Unmarshaller;
import org.springframework.oxm.XmlMappingException;
public class OxMapperImpl implements OxMapper {
private static final Log LOG = LogFactory.getLog(OxMapperImpl.class);
private Marshaller marshaller;
private Unmarshaller unmarshaller;
public void writeObjectToXml(Object object, String filename) throws IOException {
FileOutputStream fos = null;
try {
fos = new FileOutputStream(filename);
marshaller.marshal(object, new StreamResult(fos));
} catch (XmlMappingException e) {
LOG.error("Xml-Serialization failed due to an XmlMappingException.", e);
} catch (IOException e) {
LOG.error("Xml-Serialization failed due to an IOException.", e);
} finally {
if (fos != null) {
fos.close();
}
}
}
public Object readObjectFromXml(String filename) throws IOException {
FileInputStream fis = null;
try {
fis = new FileInputStream(filename);
return unmarshaller.unmarshal(new StreamSource(fis));
} catch (IOException e) {
LOG.error("Xml-Deserialization failed due to an IOException.", e);
} finally {
if (fis != null) {
fis.close();
}
}
return null;
}
public Marshaller getMarshaller() {
return marshaller;
}
public void setMarshaller(Marshaller marshaller) {
this.marshaller = marshaller;
}
public Unmarshaller getUnmarshaller() {
return unmarshaller;
}
public void setUnmarshaller(Unmarshaller unmarshaller) {
this.unmarshaller = unmarshaller;
}
}
待续。。。