July 2005

This is a very simple utility function to produce an indented XML document as a String given a Document. It throws a TransformerException if anything drastic goes wrong. [java] import java.io.*; import org.w3c.dom.Document; import javax.xml.transform.*; import javax.xml.transform.dom.DOMSource; … public static String documentToString( Document document ) throws TransformerException { TransformerFactory tFactory = TransformerFactory.newInstance(); Transformer transformer = …

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I was working on a web-based application recently and wanted a lazy way to get data from a simple ‘value object’ out to the front end without having any hard-coded field names; I came up with this. Basically, this method will take any Object, iterate through its methods looking for any of the format “get<something>” …

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