Bean2Xml.java

/*
* Claudia Project
* http://claudia.morfeo-project.org
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* S.A.Unipersonal (Telefonica I+D)
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package com.telefonica.claudia.smi.util;

import java.beans.IntrospectionException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;

import org.apache.commons.betwixt.io.BeanWriter;
import org.xml.sax.SAXException;

public class Bean2Xml {
	
	public static String toString(Object obj) {
		StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
		stringWriter.write("<?xml version='1.0' encoding='iso-8859-1' ?>\n");
		
		// Create a BeanWriter which writes to our prepared stream
		BeanWriter beanWriter = new BeanWriter(stringWriter);
		
		// Configure betwixt
		beanWriter.getXMLIntrospector().getConfiguration().setAttributesForPrimitives(false);
		beanWriter.getBindingConfiguration().setMapIDs(false);
		beanWriter.enablePrettyPrint();
		
		// Date conversion
		beanWriter.getBindingConfiguration().setObjectStringConverter(new DateStringConverter());
	
		// Write and return the object
		String ret = null;
		try {
			beanWriter.write(obj);
			ret =  stringWriter.toString();			
		} catch (IOException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (SAXException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (IntrospectionException e) {
			// TODO Auto-generated catch block
			e.printStackTrace();
		} finally {
			try {
				beanWriter.close();
				stringWriter.close();
			} catch (IOException e) {
				// TODO Auto-generated catch block
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		}

		return ret;
		
	}

}