Writing Xml to output stream

[ranjan.gururani]

Hi All ,
I have a situation where i have to generate an XML file and send it over Http in J2ME.Now for sending it over Http I need to obtain byte[] so as to write it to output stream.I do not want to store the generated xml in file system and than read it and convert it into the byte[].Is this possible?

[Enthusiastic]

Hii

Check this!

Nikesh~
Enthusiastic

[ranjan.gururani]

I went through the link but again it saves the output to a file.In my case i need to convert Document object to byte array.It seems its not straight forward in J2ME.

[traud]

In your Java world, what type of object is your XML?

Is it a String? Then you can use DataOutputStream.writeChars which requires a XML in UTF-16 big-endian encoding. Or you use OutputStream.write(byte[]) with String.getBytes("UTF-8") if your XML says it is in UTF-8 or US-ASCII.

It is not a String? What about Object.toString()?

[Enthusiastic]

Hii ranjan,

actually that link i've given to get idea hw can create xml... instead of saving into file u can get that xml as byte[] format...

Nikesh~
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[grahamhughes]

I went through the link but again it saves the output to a file.In my case i need to convert Document object to byte array.It seems its not straight forward in J2ME.

Whether your writing to an OutputStream from a FileConnection, an HttpConnection, or to a ByteArrayOutputStream, or any other kind of OutputStream, the process is identical.

If you particularly want a byte[], you could write the XML to a ByteArrayOutputStream, but you can equally write it directly to the OutputStream opened from the HttpConnection.

Graham.

[ranjan.gururani]

Hi,
Sorry All for acknowledging your contributions so late.I got fair idea by reading all your post.The solution i approached is like this.I used KXML to create a Document object and then using KXML serializer I wrote it to output Stream. I guess there
was no other simple way to convert Document object into byte[] in J2ME

Once again thanks to all for their suggestions.