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* Demonstrates the building of a structured XML document, * from a relational database using JDBC. A different version of * this example was originally developed for Chapter 4 of * Processing * XML with Java. *
* * @author Elliotte Rusty Harold * @version 1.0 * */ public class DatabaseConverter { private Connection connection; // The string passed to the constructor must be a JDBC URL that // contains all necessary information for connecting to the // database such as host, port, username, password, and // database name. For example, // jdbc:mysql://host:port]/dbname?user=username&password=pass // The driver should have been loaded before this method is // called public DatabaseConverter(String jdbcURL) throws SQLException { connection = DriverManager.getConnection(jdbcURL); } public Document extract(String selectQuery) throws IOException { try { Statement statement = connection.createStatement(); ResultSet data = statement.executeQuery(selectQuery); ResultSetMetaData metadata = data.getMetaData(); int numFields = metadata.getColumnCount(); Element table = new Element("table"); while (data.next()) { Element record = new Element("record"); for (int field = 1; field <= numFields; field++) { Element fieldElement = new Element("field"); int type = metadata.getColumnType(field); String typeName = getSchemaType(type); fieldElement.addAttribute(new Attribute("xsi:type", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", typeName, Attribute.Type.NMTOKEN)); String name = metadata.getColumnName(field); fieldElement.addAttribute(new Attribute("name", name)); // Convert nulls to empty elements with xsi:nil="true" Object value = data.getObject(field); if (value == null) { // null value in database fieldElement.addAttribute(new Attribute("xsi:nil", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", "true")); } else { // non-null value fieldElement.appendChild(convertToXML(data, field, type)); } record.appendChild(fieldElement); } table.appendChild(record); } // end while statement.close(); return new Document(table); } catch (SQLException ex) { // convert exception type throw new XMLException("SQL error", ex); } } // I want the XML document to store values in the standard W3C // XML Schema Language forms. This requires certain conversions // depending on the type of the data private Node convertToXML(ResultSet data, int field, int type) throws SQLException, IOException { switch (type) { case Types.BINARY: case Types.VARBINARY: case Types.LONGVARBINARY: return hexEncode(data.getBinaryStream(field)); case Types.BLOB: Blob blob = data.getBlob(field); return hexEncode(blob.getBinaryStream()); // String types may contain C0 control characters that are // not legal in XML. If so an exception is thrown. case Types.CLOB: Clob clob = data.getClob(field); Reader r = clob.getCharacterStream(); char[] text = new char[1024]; int numRead; StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(); while ((numRead = r.read(text, 0, 1024)) != -1) { result.append(text, 0, numRead); } return new Text(result.toString()); case Types.ARRAY: Array array = data.getArray(field); return writeArray(array); default: // All other types can be handled as strings Object o = data.getObject(field); if (o == null) return new Text(""); return new Text(o.toString()); } } private Text hexEncode(InputStream in) throws IOException { StringBuilder result = new StringBuilder(); int octet; while ((octet = in.read()) != -1) { if (octet < 16) result.append('0'); result.append(Integer.toHexString(octet)); } return new Text(result.toString()); } private Element writeArray(Array array) throws IOException, SQLException { Element holder = new Element("array"); ResultSet data = array.getResultSet(); int type = array.getBaseType(); String typeName = getSchemaType(type); while (data.next()) { Element component = new Element("component"); component.addAttribute(new Attribute("xsi:type", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance", typeName)); component.appendChild(convertToXML(data, 2, type)); holder.appendChild(component); } return holder; } public static String getSchemaType(int type) { switch (type) { case Types.ARRAY: return "array"; case Types.BIGINT: return "xsd:long"; case Types.BINARY: return "xsd:hexBinary"; case Types.BIT: return "xsd:boolean"; case Types.BLOB: return "xsd:hexBinary"; case Types.CHAR: return "xsd:string"; case Types.CLOB: return "xsd:string"; case Types.DATE: return "xsd:date"; case Types.DECIMAL: return "xsd:decimal"; case Types.DOUBLE: return "xsd:double"; case Types.FLOAT: return "xsd:decimal"; case Types.INTEGER: return "xsd:int"; case Types.JAVA_OBJECT: return "xsd:string"; case Types.LONGVARBINARY: return "xsd:hexBinary"; case Types.LONGVARCHAR: return "xsd:string"; case Types.NUMERIC: return "xsd:decimal"; case Types.REAL: return "xsd:float"; case Types.REF: return "xsd:IDREF"; case Types.SMALLINT: return "xsd:short"; case Types.STRUCT: return "struct"; case Types.TIME: return "xsd:time"; case Types.TIMESTAMP: return "xsd:dateTime"; case Types.TINYINT: return "xsd:byte"; case Types.VARBINARY: return "xsd:hexBinary"; // most general type default: return "xsd:string"; } } }