Reading an XML file unmarshalling

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To read an XML file named UserDetails.xml with the below content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<user>
    <name>Jon Skeet</name>
    <userID>8884321</userID>
</user>

We need a POJO class named User.java as below

import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;

@XmlRootElement
public class User {

    private long userID;
    private String name;

    // getters and setters
}

Here we have created the variables and class name according to the XML nodes. To map them, we use the annotation XmlRootElement on the class.

public class XMLReader {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        try {
            User user = JAXB.unmarshal(new File("UserDetails.xml"), User.class);
            System.out.println(user.getName());   // prints Jon Skeet
            System.out.println(user.getUserID()); // prints 8884321
        } catch (Exception e) {
            System.err.println("Exception occurred while reading the XML!");
        }
    }
}

Here unmarshal() method is used to parse the XML file. It takes the XML file name and the class type as two arguments. Then we can use the getter methods of the object to print the data.

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