I am writing the service to implement the audit in our application wherein users can view the status of a particular entity before and after any modification and should also be able to roll it back. We have decided to store the XML Serialized object in the databse in XML_TYPE column.
I am new to serialization, I don't know how to achieve the same, any changes needs to be done to the object to be serialized or do we need to have any mapping XML. Can someone please suggest some good libraries, I understand there are lot of those available in the market like JAXB, JIBX, JABX, XStream and etc. Which one would be good and how to use it.
Any help is highly appreciated.
Regards,
Ravi.
解决方案
Of course, the best for entities is having POJO's (Plain Old Java Objects). No strange properties, references or methods. It simplifies serializing and keeps your model objects neutral from frameworks and strange layers like persistence, UI, remote-access and so on.
XStream: simplicity
I'd suggest using XStream library for serializing. It tries to be the simplest way to serialize and deserialize objects to XML.
You should think searialization this way:
indicate what class is the object
try to serialize each property
So, these are the two problems to resolve in serializing. XStream lets you create a serializer (XStream class), (OPTIONALLY) indicate what tag name use for each class and (OPTIONALLY) indicate the aliases for properties.
So if you have something like:
package pack;
Person
+ mom: Person
+ dad: Person
it will write with no configuration:
...
...
But if you tell it to map package.Person to it will use that tag. You can tell it to write property "mom" as "mother" and things like that.
XStream xs = new XStream();
xs.alias("person", Person.class);
xs.aliasAttribute(Person.class, "mom", "mother");
References
XStream also lets you indicate what kind of references you want:
no references: serialize an object
each time it founds it in the object
tree
absolute references: the second time
an object is found it saves a
reference using the absolute path of
the first instance
(/people/person[4]/teacher)
relative references: the same, but
using a relative reference from this
point (../../person[4]/teacher)