JiBX -

maven-jibx-plugin

##### Main Project

- JiBX

##### Overview

- Introduction
- Goals
- Usage

##### Configuration

- Execution Modes

##### Examples

- Basic Binding Compilation
- Advanced Binding Compilation
- Generate Java Sources from Schemas
- Generate Modular Code from Schemas
- Test Case Usage
- XML Document comparison

##### Project Documentation

- Project Information
- Project Reports

## Comparing XML documents using JiBX utilities

### Compare two XML document with JiBX .

Here is a sample pom.xml:

    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
      <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

      <parent>
        <artifactId>jibx-ota-test</artifactId>
        <groupId>org.jibx.ota.osgi</groupId>
        <version>1.2.3</version>
      </parent>

      <artifactId>jibx-ota-test-compare-docs</artifactId>
      <name>jibx-ota-test-compare-docs (Compare two documents)</name>
      <packaging>jar</packaging>

      <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
      </properties>

      <build>
        <plugins>
          <plugin>
              <groupId>org.jibx</groupId>
              <artifactId>maven-jibx-plugin</artifactId>
              <version>1.2.2</version>
              <configuration>
                  <inFile>src/test/resources/data.xml</inFile>
                  <outFile>src/test/resources/data2.xml</outFile>
              </configuration>
              <executions>
                  <execution>
                      <id>compare-jibx-docs</id>
                      <phase>test</phase>
                      <goals>
                          <goal>document-compare</goal>
                      </goals>
                  </execution>
              </executions>
          </plugin>
        </plugins>
      </build>

      <dependencies>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>org.jibx</groupId>
          <artifactId>jibx-run</artifactId>
          <version>1.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>org.jibx</groupId>
          <artifactId>jibx-extras</artifactId>
          <version>1.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>  <!-- Why isn't this a jibx dependency? -->
          <groupId>joda-time</groupId>
          <artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
          <version>${joda-time-version}</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
          <groupId>junit</groupId>
          <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
          <version>3.8.1</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
      </dependencies>
    </project>

Note that the data.xml and data2.xml are the files being compared.

### You can roundtrip an XML document through a JiBX class and compare it with the original document.

Here is a sample pom.xml:

    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
      <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>

      <parent>
        <artifactId>jibx-ota-test</artifactId>
        <groupId>org.jibx.ota.osgi</groupId>
        <version>1.2.3</version>
      </parent>

      <artifactId>jibx-ota-test-gen-compare</artifactId>
      <name>jibx-ota-test-gen-compare (Roundtrip document and compare)</name>
      <packaging>jar</packaging>

      <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
      </properties>

      <build>
        <plugins>

          <plugin>
            <groupId>org.jibx</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-jibx-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.2.2</version>

            <executions>
              <execution>
                <id>generate-java-code-from-schema</id>
                  <phase>generate-test-sources</phase>
                <goals>
                  <goal>test-schema-codegen</goal>
                </goals>
              </execution>
              <execution>
                  <id>compile-binding</id>
                <phase>process-test-classes</phase>
                  <goals>
                      <goal>test-bind</goal>
                  </goals>
                  <configuration>
                      <directory>target/generated-test-sources</directory>
                  </configuration>
              </execution>
              <execution>
                  <id>compare-jibx-docs</id>
                  <phase>test</phase>
                  <goals>
                      <goal>document-compare</goal>
                  </goals>
                  <configuration>
                      <mappedClass>org.opentravel.ota.OTAAirLowFareSearchRQ</mappedClass>
                      <inFile>src/test/resources/OTA_AirLowFareSearchRQ2.xml</inFile>
                  </configuration>
              </execution>
            </executions>
          </plugin>

          <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>2.3</version>
                <configuration>
                <fork>true</fork>
                  <source>1.5</source>
                  <target>1.5</target>
                </configuration>
          </plugin>

         <plugin>
            <groupId>org.codehaus.mojo</groupId>
            <artifactId>build-helper-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <executions>
              <execution>
                <id>add-test-source</id>
                <phase>generate-sources</phase>
                <goals>
                  <goal>add-test-source</goal>
                </goals>
                <configuration>
                  <sources>
                    <source>${basedir}/target/generated-test-sources</source>
                  </sources>
                </configuration>
              </execution>
            </executions>
          </plugin>

        </plugins>
      </build>

      <dependencies>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>org.jibx</groupId>
          <artifactId>jibx-run</artifactId>
          <version>1.2.2</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>org.jibx</groupId>
          <artifactId>jibx-extras</artifactId>
          <version>1.2.2</version>
        </dependency>

        <dependency>
          <groupId>junit</groupId>
          <artifactId>junit</artifactId>
          <version>3.8.1</version>
          <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
      </dependencies>
    </project>

This org.opentravel.ota.OTAAirLowFareSearchRQ is the class that the OTA_AirLowFareSearchRQ2.xml will be marshalled to and unmarshalled before being compared with the original (OTA_AirLowFareSearchRQ2.xml) document.

Note the use of the build-helper-maven-plugin to add the generated-test-sources directory to the source path.