oindrila-b / xml-to-json

A Spring Boot Application that uses Spring Batch to parse large XML files and then convert them into JSON object Arrays.

Spring Batch : XML to JSON Array

A Spring Boot Project that uses Spring Batch to parse an XML file and converts the fragments into a JSONArray of Recording Objects.

Prerequisites :

To run this application you would need :

• JDK 17
• Maven

How To Run The Application With Maven:

You can run this application either by going to the XmlToJsonApplication.java class and clicking the Run button. Or you can run it from th terminal using the maven command :

mvn clean spring-boot:run

Once the application is up and running, you can use either postman or the web to test the application. The endpoint for the application is localhost:8080/api/v1/getJSON .Below is a sample showing how to test the application with Postman :

• Go to Postman
• Type in the URL endpoint localhost:8080/api/v1/getJSON
  
• Add your filepath as the first query parameter:
        For example : If the filepath is C/user/downloads/myXml.xml then the whole request URL would look like : localhost:8080/api/v1/getJSON?filepath=C/user/downloads/myXML.xml
• Next add the XML tags and the Names you'd want the JSON objects to have. For Example :
  
  If you'd like your Recording's title property to be called recordingTitle, then pass in the value like this : RECORDING-TITLE-COLLECTING-SOCIETY=recordingTitle
• Note that it will only be able to map with values if the Tag exists in the XML file. The entire URL would look something like this :

localhost:8080/api/v1/getJSON?filepath=C/user/downloads/myXml.xmll&RECORDING-TITLE-COLLECTING-SOCIETY=recordingTitle&MAIN-ARTIST-NAME-COLLECTING-SOCIETY=Artist

{"Recordings":[{"Title":"PRAVI 2017","Main Artist":[{"Artist":"JANA"}]},{"Title":"DOWN 2009","Main Artist":[{"Artist":"JAY SEAN"}]}]}