In following example we will see how to import XML Data to populate JPA entities. (Check out last tutorial to import JSON data).

Example

Entity

@Entity
@XmlRootElement
public class Employee {
  private @Id
  @GeneratedValue
  Long id;
  private String name;
  private String dept;
    .............
}

JavaConfig

@EnableJpaRepositories
@ComponentScan
@Configuration
public class AppConfig {

  @Bean
  public UnmarshallerRepositoryPopulatorFactoryBean repositoryPopulator() {
      Jaxb2Marshaller marshaller = new Jaxb2Marshaller();
      marshaller.setClassesToBeBound(Employee.class);
      UnmarshallerRepositoryPopulatorFactoryBean factory = new UnmarshallerRepositoryPopulatorFactoryBean();
      factory.setUnmarshaller(marshaller);
      factory.setResources(new Resource[]{new ClassPathResource("employee-data.xml"),
              new ClassPathResource("employee-data2.xml")});
      return factory;
  }

  @Bean
  EntityManagerFactory entityManagerFactory() {
      EntityManagerFactory emf =
              Persistence.createEntityManagerFactory("example-unit");
      return emf;
  }

  @Bean
  public PlatformTransactionManager transactionManager() {
      JpaTransactionManager txManager = new JpaTransactionManager();
      txManager.setEntityManagerFactory(entityManagerFactory());
      return txManager;
  }
}

XML data

src/main/resources/employee-data.xml

<employee>
    <dept>IT</dept>
    <name>Lara</name>
</employee>

src/main/resources/employee-data2.xml

<employee>
    <dept>Admin</dept>
    <name>Wayne</name>
</employee>

Repository

public interface EmployeeRepository extends CrudRepository<Employee, Long> {
}

Example Client

@Component
public class ExampleClient {

  @Autowired
  private EmployeeRepository repo;

  public void run() {
      System.out.println(" -- finding all employees --");
      Iterable<Employee> all = repo.findAll();
      all.forEach(System.out::println);
  }
}

Main class

public class ExampleMain {

  public static void main(String[] args) {
      AnnotationConfigApplicationContext context =
              new AnnotationConfigApplicationContext(AppConfig.class);
      ExampleClient exampleClient = context.getBean(ExampleClient.class);
      exampleClient.run();
      EntityManagerFactory emf = context.getBean(EntityManagerFactory.class);
      emf.close();
  }
}

 -- finding all employees --
Employee{id=1, name='Lara', dept='IT'}
Employee{id=2, name='Wayne', dept='Admin'}

Example Project

Dependencies and Technologies Used:

• spring-data-jpa 2.0.8.RELEASE: Spring Data module for JPA repositories.
  Uses org.springframework:spring-context version 5.0.7.RELEASE
• hibernate-core 5.3.1.Final: Hibernate's core ORM functionality.
  Implements javax.persistence:javax.persistence-api version 2.2
• h2 1.4.197: H2 Database Engine.
• spring-oxm 5.0.7.RELEASE: Spring Object/XML Marshalling.
• JDK 1.8
• Maven 3.5.4