An Annotation-Based Way to Convert From Element / Elements to Java objects (Jackson/GSON style).

[sam-hieken]

Hello,

I've noticed there's no built in way to turn XML / HTML into plain Java objects, and decided to build out a solution for my personal use. It's been a massive productivity boost (especially when dealing with XML), so I figured it couldn't hurt to see if anyone was interested in getting it merged as an experimental feature.

• Demonstration
• Example data (needed for demo)

Please keep in mind a few things:

• I started working on this yesterday; while I have done quite a lot of testing, I wouldn't be surprised if there are some issues in terms of error handling and performance.
• Conversion is currently only forward: I currently haven't added a way to convert back from a properly annotated object to an Element / Elements (nor do I plan to at the moment)
• The only supported collection types currently are List and Set for simplicity, though I'd be open to adding support for most (if not all)
• Documentation is sparse; due to how recently I created this (and the fact I created it for personal use), documentation is not my priority (more than happy to build it out though if this gets merged)
• My testing has mainly been parsing XML: it's possible some issues will arise using HTML (though I can't think of any HTML specific issues, as the converter should work with all SGML).

Thank you

[jhy]

Hi there -- this looks quite interesting, but I don't feel it's a good fit directly in jsoup. I think it would be better as a separate specific project, leveraging jsoup for the parsing. On first review I believe no modifications to jsoup are required; please ping me if otherwise.

Cheers,
Jonathan