Re: [eclipselink-users] How to get MOXy to trim the text values?

[Matt MacIvor <matt.macivor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Polly,

Currently EclipseLink MOXy considers everything inside an element to be 
significant, and therefore doesn't trim the value. You can work around 
this in a couple of ways.

One would be to implement a Converter (see 
org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.converters.Converter interface) and add 
this to your mapping with a session customization. This would allow you 
to manually trim the value before it's set in your object. You could 
also do this with a custom attribute accessor. (see 
org.eclipse.persistence.mappings.AttributeAccessor).

I agree there should be an easier way to do this. We should be able to 
just add a flag on XMLDirectMapping to indicate that string values 
should be trimmed.

Could you enter an enhancement request to this effect?

Thanks,

-Matt

amphoras wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I mapped a field in my Java class to an XPath like "ns1:CountryCode/text()".
>
> I find that when the XML looks like this:
>                            <CountryCode listID='' listAgencyID=''
> listAgencyName='' listName='' listVersionID='' name='' languageID=''
> listURI='http://www.foo.com' listSchemeURI='http://www.foo.com'>
>                            USA
>                            </CountryCode>
>
> The value that gets unmarshalled is "                            USA".  All
> those spaces that were used for formatting are preserved.  Is there a way to
> configure EclipseLink to trim the spaces on either end of the string and
> just give me "USA"?
>
> Thanks!
> --Polly
>