How to generate a xml file on webwork action?

[Deleted user]

Hi everyone,

I created a webwork1 plugin an need somebody to tell me how can I marshall an action class in a way when I submit a form on a submit button, so it generates an xml file. At moment I tried with JAXB but no luck.

I put the marshal logic in doExecute() method, nothing happened. After that try to put logic implementation in execute() method of the action class but still nothing...Where do I need to put the marhsalling implementation so when I click the submit button it executes my block of code?

Best Regards,

Ivan

[Deleted user]

I managed to set tomcat in debug mode. Just type: 'catalina.sh jpda start'. The doExecute method is not even called, so I added a new method 'createXML' which has the logic. The method is called in vm. The exception I get is "java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\\Users\\user\\Desktop\\XMLtest.xml (No such file or directory) ". JIRA is on linux machine, but I access it via browser in windows OS. I will google it for a answers.

[Volodymyr Krupach]

sure, atlas-debug is part of the SDK and it will not work for your installed JIRA. So you need to find how to run your Tomcat in debug mode. I remember I used to add jpda args in catalina.sh.

[Deleted user]

That is the problem. The development instance that is instantied via atlas SDK (e.g. localhost:2990/jira), doesn't have the jira configuration and all custom field that we have on our JIRA (e.g. hostName:8080/jira). I think that the 'atlas-debug' is going to work only on atlassian SDK app instance? This is way i tried to run tomcat of our instance via "jpda start" parameter.

[Volodymyr Krupach]

I guess you need to launch development instance via atlas-debug https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/developer-tools/working-with-the-sdk/command-reference/atlas-debug and connect to it https://developer.atlassian.com/docs/developer-tools/working-in-an-ide/creating-a-remote-debug-target

[Deleted user]

I would try to debug, but I can't get JIRA running in debug mode. Tried with ./bin/startup.sh jpda start. And by default if nothing is specifyed in JVM arguments, the remote port should be 5005. I don't even see if that port is listening????

[Volodymyr Krupach]

Ok. So you are not returning the XML but rather storing it on file system. Can you debug doExecute method? It' supposed to be triggered by YourWebWorkClass.jspa URL.

[Deleted user]

I found something similar, but it is not webwork1 plugin: https://developer.atlassian.com/jiradev/jira-architecture/building-jira-add-ons/jira-plugins2-overview/jira-plugin-module-types/search-request-view-plugin-module# -------- but the vm is hardcoded for xml tags, which I don't want.

[Deleted user]

doExecute() looks like this: ======= public String doExecute()throws Exception{ try{ JAXBContext context = JAXBContext.newInstance(xmlMarshaling.getClass()); Marshaller marshaller = context.createMarshaller(); marshaller.setProperty(Marshaller.JAXB_FORMATTED_OUTPUT, Boolean.TRUE); marshaller.marshal(xmlMarshaling, new File("C:\\Users\\user\\Desktop\\testXML.xml")); marshaller.marshal(xmlMarshaling, new File("/home/jira/jira-home/testXML.xml")); }catch(JAXBException e){ e.printStackTrace(); } return SUCCESS; } ======

[Deleted user]

Hi Volodymyr, yes, I want the XML file as response. I have a velocity template page with a form where I have 2 input fields and 2 textarea and 1 submit button. I have an action class named 'XMLMarshaling' that is mapped to that velocity template. When i fill this four fields on the .vm I managed to store the user input (FormData) into variables of a java class. What I want is, when I click the 'Submit' button, the variables of a java class that are initialized from user input, schould be exportet to XML file. After I got that XML file I would put that XML file somewhere in database (would add some column to store the file). Do you have any suggestions? Best Regards, Ivan

[Volodymyr Krupach]

Do you want to return XML as response to your web page?