Read XML String using StAX

Question

I am using stax for the first time to parse an XML String. I have found some examples but can\'t get my code to work. This is the latest version of my code:

Answer 1

I faced a similar issue as I was getting "IllegalStateException: Not a textual event" message When I looked through your code I figured out that if you had a condition:

if (event == XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT){
....
addressId = reader.getText(); // it throws exception here
....
}

(Please note: StaXMan did point out this in his answer!)

This happens since to fetch text, XMLStreamReader instance must have encountered 'XMLStreamConstants.CHARACTERS' event!

There maybe a better way to do this...but this is a quick and dirty fix (I have only shown lines of code that may be of interest) Now to make this happen modify your code slightly:

// this will tell the XMLStreamReader that it is appropriate to read the text
boolean pickupText = false

while(reader.hasNext()){

if (event == XMLStreamConstants.START_ELEMENT){
   if( (reader.getLocalName().equals(STATUS) )
   || ( (reader.getLocalName().equals(STATUS) )
   || ((reader.getLocalName().equals(STATUS) ))
         // indicate the reader that it has to pick text soon!
     pickupText = true;
   }
}else if (event == XMLStreamConstants.CHARACTERS){
  String textFromXML = reader.getText();
  // process textFromXML ...

  //...

  //set pickUpText false
  pickupText = false;

 }    

}

Hope that helps!