JAXB converters
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
In case your database column is of type org.jooq.XML, you may want to attach a custom data type binding that is backed by JAXB. It is easy to achieve manually using a hand-written Converter, but you can also use the following convenience configuration:
<configuration>
<generator>
<database>
<forcedTypes>
<forcedType>
<!-- Specify the Java type of your custom type. This corresponds to the Converter's <U> type. -->
<userType>com.example.MyType</userType>
<!-- Apply the built in converter of type org.jooq.impl.XMLtoJAXBConverter. -->
<xmlConverter>true</xmlConverter>
<!-- A Java regex matching fully-qualified columns, attributes, parameters. Use the pipe to separate several expressions. -->
<includeExpression>.*\.XML_COLUMN</includeExpression>
</forcedType>
</forcedTypes>
</database>
</generator>
</configuration>
See the configuration XSD, standalone code generation, and maven code generation for more details.
new org.jooq.meta.jaxb.Configuration()
.withGenerator(new Generator()
.withDatabase(new Database()
.withForcedTypes(
new ForcedType()
// Specify the Java type of your custom type. This corresponds to the Converter's <U> type.
.withUserType("com.example.MyType")
// Apply the built in converter of type org.jooq.impl.XMLtoJAXBConverter.
.withXmlConverter(true)
// A Java regex matching fully-qualified columns, attributes, parameters. Use the pipe to separate several expressions.
.withIncludeExpression(".*\\.XML_COLUMN")
)
)
)
See the configuration XSD and programmatic code generation for more details.
// The jOOQ-codegen-gradle plugin has been introduced in version 3.19 only.
// The jOOQ-codegen-gradle plugin has been introduced in version 3.19 only.
generationTool {
generator {
database {
forcedTypes {
forcedType {
// Specify the Java type of your custom type. This corresponds to the Converter's <U> type.
userType = "com.example.MyType"
// Apply the built in converter of type org.jooq.impl.XMLtoJAXBConverter.
xmlConverter = true
// A Java regex matching fully-qualified columns, attributes, parameters. Use the pipe to separate several expressions.
includeExpression = ".*\\.XML_COLUMN"
}
}
}
}
}
See the configuration XSD and gradle code generation for more details.
As always, when regular expressions are used, they are regular expressions with default flags.
For more details about how to match columns, please refer to the section about matching columns for forced types.
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