Java XML String Transform toString(Source input)

Description

Adapter method used to convert any type of Source to a String

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
input	a parameter

Declaration

public static String toString(Source input) 

Method Source Code

//package com.java2s;
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import javax.xml.soap.SOAPException;
import javax.xml.soap.SOAPMessage;
import javax.xml.transform.Result;
import javax.xml.transform.Source;
import javax.xml.transform.Transformer;
import javax.xml.transform.TransformerFactory;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.StreamResult;

import java.io.StringWriter;

public class Main {
    /**
     * Adapter method used to convert any type of Source to a String
     * 
     * @param input
     * @return
     */
    public static String toString(Source input) {

        if (input == null)
            return null;

        StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
        Transformer trasformer;
        try {
            trasformer = TransformerFactory.newInstance().newTransformer();
            Result result = new StreamResult(writer);
            trasformer.transform(input, result);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            return null;
        }

        return writer.getBuffer().toString();
    }

    /**
     * Adapter method used to convert any type of SOAPMessage to a String
     * 
     * @param input
     * @return
     */
    public static String toString(SOAPMessage input) {

        if (input == null)
            return null;

        Source result = null;
        try {
            result = input.getSOAPPart().getContent();
        } catch (SOAPException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        return toString(result);
    }
}

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