Serializing an object not working properly - funky chars.

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I have a java webservice.. I need to log the response before returning. I am trying to serialize as below:

ByteArrayOutputStream fos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
ObjectOutputStream outStream = new ObjectOutputStream( fos );
outStream.writeObject( response );
outStream.flush();
return fos.toString();

But I see invalid characters all over. How should properly save this as an XML?
And this object is Serializable.

Thanks,

[ProgramThis]

I had the same problem a while back and I had to use the following:

    public void writeXML(String xml) throws Exception {
        OutputStream os = new BufferedOutputStream(new FileOutputStream("file.xml"));
        String format = "UTF-8";
        OutputStreamWriter osw = new OutputStreamWriter(os,format);
        osw.write(xml);
        osw.flush();
        os.close();
        osw.close();
    }

You have to use a writer that you can set to an XML standard for it to format correctly and be recognized as XML. Just being able to "see" the tags and valid XML doesn't mean that the file is actually formatted correctly.

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You already have an xml in string format. What I am looking for is to save complex java object as an xml to the database. Thanks,

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It is working once i change it to XMLEnocder:

ByteArrayOutputStream fos = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

try {
XMLEncoder encoder = new XMLEncoder(fos);
encoder.writeObject(response);
encoder.flush();
return fos.toString();
}