From Document Object to a byte array

[e vanduffel]

hey guys,
i got the following issue to tackle:
I receive a xml as a byte of arrays. I manage to make a Document object
of this byte array.
Now the sending application wants a byte array back...
How do I create a byte array from Document object??

thanks,
Wout

[Balaji Loganathan]

Is converting Document object to String to ByteArray healthy ?

[Lasse Koskela]

Originally posted by Balaji Loganathan:
Is converting Document object to String to ByteArray healthy ?

Why would the String-step be needed?

import java.io.*;
import javax.xml.transform.*;
import javax.xml.transform.dom.*;
import javax.xml.transform.stream.*;
import org.w3c.dom.*;
 
public class Util {
 
    public static byte[] doc2bytes(Node node) {
        try {
            Source source = new DOMSource(node);
            ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
            StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
            Result result = new StreamResult(out);
            TransformerFactory factory = TransformerFactory.newInstance();
            Transformer transformer = factory.newTransformer();
            transformer.transform(source, result);
            return out.toByteArray();
        } catch (TransformerConfigurationException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (TransformerException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
        return null;
    }
}

[e vanduffel]

Thanks for the solution...
it really works out,
but unfortunatally the client has SDK 1.3.1...
And the solution provided is not supported...

So the search continues...

[Balaji Loganathan]

Thats make sense Lasse.

[Balaji Loganathan]

Originally posted by e vanduffel:
[QB]Thanks for the solution...
it really works out,
but unfortunatally the client has SDK 1.3.1...
And the solution provided is not supported...
QB]

Is it possible for you to ship/install the latest xerces parser on the your client side ? if so the above code by Lasse will work.

[e vanduffel]

Can I download it some where?
greetz,
Wout

[Balaji Loganathan]

here