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I am trying to generate XML using Groovy MarkupBuilder.
XML needed is of this form (simplified):
<Order>
<StoreID />
<City />
<Items>
<Item>
<ItemCode />
<UnitPrice />
<Quantity />
</Item>
</Items>
</Order>
The data is stored in an Excel file and is easily accessible. My Groovy script parses the Excel and generates the XML.
e.g.
import groovy.xml.*
def writer = new StringWriter()
def xml = new MarkupBuilder(writer)
xml.Order{
StoreID("Store1")
City("New York")
Items(){
Item(){
ItemCode("LED_TV")
UnitPrice("800.00")
Quantity("2")
}
}
}
There can be multiple "item" containers inside "items".
My question is: Let's say we want to generate Order XML having 10 items. Is there a way to write something like a for loop inside "items" container? That way, we won't need to write MarkupBuilder code for 10 different items.
There is a similar question Adding dynamic elements and attributes to groovy MarkupBuilder or StreamingMarkupBuilder. But it doesn't discuss looping.
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This contribution has helped me to solve a similar problem : I wanted to call functions in MarkupBuilder blocks, like the addElement() function in my example.
I wanted to split the code into different functions.
Example for calling functions in MarkupBuilder blocks :
static void addElement(Map<String,String> elements, MarkupBuilder mb) {
mb."${elements.tag}"(elements.content)
}
static void example() {
def writer = new StringWriter()
def htmlBuilder = new MarkupBuilder(writer)
String tag = "a"
Map<String, String> attributes1 = new HashMap<>()
attributes1.put("href","http://address")
String content1 = "this is a link"
Map<String, String> element1 = new HashMap<>()
element1.put("tag","b")
element1.put("content","bold content 1")
Map<String, String> element2 = new HashMap<>()
element2.put("tag","b")
element2.put("content","bold content 2")
List<Map<String, String>> elements = new ArrayList<>()
elements.add(element1)
elements.add(element2)
htmlBuilder."html" {
"${tag}"( attributes1, content1 )
elements.each { contentIterator ->
addElement(contentIterator, htmlBuilder)
}
}
println writer
}
and it produces this output :
<html>
<a href='http://address'>this is a link</a>
<b>bold content 1</b>
<b>bold content 2</b>
</html>
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