Use JAXB to create Object from XML String

Question

How can I use the below code to unmarshal a XML string an map it to the JAXB object below?

JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Person.class);

Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller();

Person person = (Person) unmarshaller.unmarshal("xml string here");

@XmlRootElement(name = "Person")

public class Person {

    @XmlElement(name = "First-Name")

    String firstName;

    @XmlElement(name = "Last-Name")

    String lastName;

    public String getFirstName() {

        return firstName;

    }

    public void setFirstName(String firstName) {

        this.firstName = firstName;

    }

    public String getLastName() {

        return lastName;

    }

    public void setLastName(String lastName) {

        this.lastName = lastName;

    }

}

Answer 1

To pass XML content, you need to wrap the content in a Reader, and unmarshal that instead:

JAXBContext jaxbContext = JAXBContext.newInstance(Person.class);

Unmarshaller unmarshaller = jaxbContext.createUnmarshaller();

StringReader reader = new StringReader("xml string here");

Person person = (Person) unmarshaller.unmarshal(reader);