reference external xml files with templates on it.

[Joshua]

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I've been reading the templates section from BeanIO but I haven't found anything specific to external files with templates. Basically, I am trying to create a xml file that will hold all my templates and reference a specific template from other files. I have this file mytemplates.xml <beanio> <template name="theTemplate"> //template fields </template> </beanio> and I have another file called myfile.xml that will use the templates from mytemplates.xml <beanio> <stream name="aaa" format="fixedlength"> <include template="theTemplate"/> </stream> </beanio> is there a way to accomplish this?

[Nico Schlebusch]

Hi Joshua,

You can do the following to import your templates:

<beanio xmlns="http://www.beanio.org/2012/03"
  xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.beanio.org/2012/03 http://www.beanio.org/2012/03/mapping.xsd">

  <import resource="classpath:mytemplates.xml"/>
 
  <!-- the rest of your file -->
</beanio>

After the 'mytemplates.xml' file has been imported, you can use it as if everything is in the same file. I actually use it for test cases where the BeanIO mapping file used by the test cases import the "real/main" BeanIO mapping file so that I don't have to pollute my real mapping file with streams etc that is only relevant to test cases.

Kind regards,
Nico Schlebusch

[Joshua]

Thanks!