Saving and Loading XML to PostgreSQL via jOOQ

To use XML Java DOM objects with PostgreSQL's XML datatype, do the following.

Create your table with the XML datatype: (You now have a table where the x column can be an XML document, or can be null.)

CREATE TABLE foo (xml_column XML);

Add the following to your Maven dependencies:

<dependency>
    <groupId>com.databasesandlife</groupId>
    <artifactId>java-common</artifactId>
    <version>8.13.0</version>
</dependency>

Thereafter, tell the jOOQ generation process that any PostgreSQL columns of the type XML should be converted to/from Java DOM Element objects thus:

<forcedType>
    <userType>org.w3c.dom.Element</userType>
    <converter>com.databasesandlife.util.jooq.PostgresXmlDomElementBinding</converter>
    <types>XML</types>   <!-- DB types to match -->
</forcedType>

Regenerate your sources with mvn generate-sources and now you can write code such as:

import org.w3c.dom.Element;

// Get an XML DOM "Element"
Element element = DomParser.from("<input/>");

// Set the value in your record
FooRecord r = new FooRecord();
r.setXmlColumn(element);

// Fetch the record
FooRecord fetched = ....;
Element e = fetched.getXmlColumn();