How to convert byte array of a SOAP message to raw XML in Java

Question

I am working on a web service, services talk to each other with SOAPMessage (SOAP XML). SOAPMessage enters my method as a byte array

public void process(byte xmlByteArray[]){ ... ..... }

what i need is to convert this byte array to raw XML so that i can process it with JDOM.

do you know any solution for this problem?

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/522395/getting-raw-xml-from-soapmessage-in-java — barq, Feb 03 '15 at 14:53
i have seen that. i guess there is one more step here : converting byte array to soap message. — MoienGK, Feb 03 '15 at 14:55

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 03 '15 at 15:40

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SAXBuilder builder = new SAXBuilder();
Document document = builder.build(new ByteArrayInputStream(xmlByteArray));

See http://www.java2s.com/Code/Java/XML/ReadanXMLdocumentusingJDOM.htm

answered Feb 03 '15 at 15:40

barq

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score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 03 '15 at 14:54

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Try this:

public static Document byteArrayToDocument( final byte[] byteArray ) throws IOException, SAXException,
        ParserConfigurationException
{
     final DocumentBuilderFactory factory = DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance();
     final DocumentBuilder builder = factory.newDocumentBuilder();
     return builder.parse( new ByteArrayInputStream( byteArray ) );
}

answered Feb 03 '15 at 14:54

Ravi Wallau

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it may work but the return type of your method is org.w3c.dom.Document and not JDOM.Document. – MoienGK Feb 03 '15 at 15:08
i guess i can convert it to string and re-convert it back – MoienGK Feb 03 '15 at 15:12

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 06 '16 at 00:22

This is how to do this in VTD-XML

import com.ximpleware.*;

public class readBytes{

    public static void main(String[] s} throws VTDException{
        VTDGen vg = new VTDGen();
        //get XML Byte array here
        vg.setDoc(xmlByteArray);
        vg.parse();
        VTDNav vn = vg.getNav();
    }
}

How to convert byte array of a SOAP message to raw XML in Java

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