/RWX

XML-RPC Event API with Object Bindings (Java)

Primary LanguageJavaGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

RWX XML-RPC Object-Binding API

RWX is a set of APIs for dealing with XML-RPC interactions in Java. It offers an annotation-based object-binding API for Java objects.

It uses Java Annotation Processor API to generate parser/renderer Java source files according to RWX annotations. The top-level RWXMapper uses those generated classes under the hood.

You will need four steps to use RWX:

  1. Create model classes according to your XML-RPC req/response format.
  2. Annotate model classes with RWX annotations.
  3. Generate sources from annotated classes (an example POM is provided in the rwx-test module).
  4. Call RWXMapper.render/parse methods to convert between XML-RPC req/resp strings and Java objects.

The first two steps can be simplified by binding a field to java.lang.Object if you do not know the exact Java type. In such cases, RWX will bind a List/Map based data structure to the field and you can always interpret it in your program.