Groovy - XmlSlurper - read attributes into a Map

Question

<racebet amount="8.89" id="6852465" bettype="K" instance="1" type="csf" />

What is the best way to create a map containing the attributes as keys and the corresponding values?

thanks.

Davita

Answer 1

Given:

def xml = '<racebet amount="8.89" id="6852465" bettype="K" instance="1" type="csf" />'

You can simply do:

def attrmap = new XmlSlurper().parseText( xml ).attributes()

Stop

Wow, great. The documentation for XMLSlurper lacks a lot: groovy.codehaus.org/Reading+XML+using+Groovy's+XmlSlurper – Davita

Same is applicable if XmlParser is used. – Farrel

@Davita You should be looking at GPathResult Api or Node Api instead, because the parsed result is one of those when XmlSlurper ot XmlParser is used respectively. – Farrel

In this case, it's a NodeChild -- assert new XmlSlurper().parseText( xml ).getClass().name == 'groovy.util.slurpersupport.NodeChild' – Stop