We can validate JAXB Object with XML Schema(XSD). JAXB provide a class named Validator to validate against a schema. This class is available since Java 1.5
package javawiki.jaxb.validation;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlRootElement;
import javax.xml.bind.annotation.XmlType;
@XmlRootElement
@XmlType(name = "Customer", propOrder = {
"name",
"phoneNumber",
})
public class Customer {
private String name;
private List phoneNumber;
public Customer() {
phoneNumber = new ArrayList();
}
public String getName() {
return name;
}
public void setName(String name) {
this.name = name;
}
public List getPhoneNumber() {
return phoneNumber;
}
public void setPhoneNumber(List phoneNumber) {
this.phoneNumber = phoneNumber;
}
}
package javawiki.jaxb.validation;
public class PhoneNumber {
}
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<xs:schema xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:element name="customer">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="name" type="stringMaxSize5" />
<xs:element ref="phoneNumber" maxOccurs="3" />
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
<xs:element name="phoneNumber">
<xs:complexType />
</xs:element>
<xs:simpleType name="stringMaxSize5">
<xs:restriction base="xs:string">
<xs:maxLength value="5" />
</xs:restriction>
</xs:simpleType>
</xs:schema>
package javawiki.jaxb.validation;
import org.xml.sax.ErrorHandler;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;
import org.xml.sax.SAXParseException;
public class MyErrorHandler implements ErrorHandler {
@Override
public void error(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
System.out.println(exception.getLocalizedMessage());
}
@Override
public void fatalError(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
System.out.println(exception.getLocalizedMessage());
}
@Override
public void warning(SAXParseException exception) throws SAXException {
System.out.println(exception.getLocalizedMessage());
}
}
package javawiki.jaxb.validation;
import java.io.File;
import javax.xml.XMLConstants;
import javax.xml.bind.JAXBContext;
import javax.xml.bind.util.JAXBSource;
import javax.xml.validation.Schema;
import javax.xml.validation.SchemaFactory;
import javax.xml.validation.Validator;
public class DemoSchemaValidation {
public static void main(String[] args) {
Customer customer = new Customer();
customer.setName("Jane ");
customer.getPhoneNumber().add(new PhoneNumber());
customer.getPhoneNumber().add(new PhoneNumber());
customer.getPhoneNumber().add(new PhoneNumber());
try
{
JAXBContext jc = JAXBContext.newInstance(Customer.class);
JAXBSource source = new JAXBSource(jc, customer);
SchemaFactory sf = SchemaFactory.newInstance(XMLConstants.W3C_XML_SCHEMA_NS_URI);
Schema schema = sf.newSchema(new File("src/javawiki/jaxb/validation/customer.xsd"));
Validator validator = schema.newValidator();
validator.setErrorHandler(new MyErrorHandler());
validator.validate(source);
}catch(Exception ex)
{
ex.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
Output:
cvc-maxLength-valid: Value 'Jane Doe' with length = '8' is not facet-valid with respect to maxLength '5' for type 'stringMaxSize5'.
cvc-type.3.1.3: The value 'Jane Doe' of element 'name' is not valid.
cvc-complex-type.2.4.d: Invalid content was found starting with element 'phoneNumber'. No child element is expected at this point.