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.

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 30 '14 at 15:12

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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()

answered Apr 30 '14 at 15:12

tim_yates

Wow, great. The documentation for XMLSlurper lacks a lot: http://groovy.codehaus.org/Reading+XML+using+Groovy's+XmlSlurper – saravana_pc Apr 30 '14 at 15:19
Same is applicable if `XmlParser` is used. – dmahapatro Apr 30 '14 at 15:20
@saravana_pc You should be looking at [GPathResult](http://groovy.codehaus.org/api/groovy/util/slurpersupport/GPathResult.html) Api or [Node](http://groovy.codehaus.org/api/groovy/util/Node.html) Api instead, because the parsed result is one of those when XmlSlurper ot XmlParser is used respectively. – dmahapatro Apr 30 '14 at 15:22
In this case, it's a [NodeChild](http://groovy.codehaus.org/api/groovy/util/slurpersupport/NodeChild.html) -- `assert new XmlSlurper().parseText( xml ).getClass().name == 'groovy.util.slurpersupport.NodeChild'` – tim_yates Apr 30 '14 at 15:25

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