Gradle JAXB plugin

This is a Gradle plugin for generating JAXB classes with the xjc compiler from the given schemas.

Usage:

apply plugin: 'jaxb'

dependencies {
  jaxb 'com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-xjc:2.1.12'
}

buildscript {
  repositories {
    mavenCentral()
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath 'no.entitas.gradle:gradle-jaxb-plugin:1.5'
  }
}

The java package for the generated code is extracted from the instruction jaxb:package inside the schema files. For the schema includes and the output directory sensible defaults are used:

• Includes for schemas:

    src/<source set>/xsd/**/*.xsd
  

• Output directory:

    <build dir>/generated-src/jaxb/<source set>
  

Not many configuration options exists at the moment. You can configure

• the classpath used for generating and compiling

    dependencies {
      // This first line specifies which version of the xjc compiler to use
      jaxb 'com.sun.xml.bind:jaxb-xjc:2.1.12'
      jaxb '<other dependency which the generated classes need>'
    }
  

• the jaxb source directory sets

    sourceSets {
        main {
            jaxb {
                <setup srcDir, includes, excludes, output, etc>
            }
        }
        test {
            jaxb {
                <setup srcDir, includes, excludes, output, etc>
            }
        }
    }
  

For a quite advanced example, consider a project having 2 schemas (Schema1.xsd and Schema2.xsd) in src/main/xsd generated into 2 different java packages. As the xjc compiler does not support generating into 2 different java packages in a single run, these 2 schemas must be included from 2 different source sets (the xjc compiler is run once for each source set):

sourceSets {
    main {
        jaxb {
            exclude '**/Schema1.xsd'
        }
    }
    schema2 {
        output.classesDir(sourceSets.main.output.classesDir)
        jaxb {
            srcDir 'src/main/xsd'
            exclude '**/Schema2.xsd'
        }
    }
}

compileJava.dependsOn compileSchema2Java

This will create 2 directories for the generated code, <build dir>/generated-src/jaxb/main and <build dir>/generated-src/jaxb/schema2.

The source directory for schema2 would normally be src/schema2/xsd, but is here changed to the actual directory src/main/xsd.

The compiled output from the schema2 source set is redirected to the directory for the compiled output from the main source set. This makes it easier to setup the build workflow to get the schema2 classes into the generated jar.

Finally the compilation of the generated sources for schema2 is injected into the workflow, so it is compiled just before the regular and generated sources of the main source set.

Known issues and limitations

• The plugin is not tested extensively, especially with regards to different versions of the xjc compiler
• There are several XJC ant task configurations that are not exposed through the plugin at the moment