How to delete specific parent(with children) section, having only the element XML using groovy

Question

Thank's for spending your time on trying to solve this, It's hard to describe the problem in the title, so i will try to be more specific here :)

I'm having trouble deleting parent section (including children) only having the element value.

Example: I have a XML file. I loop threw it using XMLSlurper and store the parsed field element.

   <fieldPermissions>
        <editable>false</editable>
        <field>Case.ClosedDate</field>
        <readable>false</readable>
    </fieldPermissions>
    <fieldPermissions>
        <editable>false</editable>
        <field>Case.ClosedOnCreate</field>
        <readable>false</readable>
    </fieldPermissions>
    <fieldPermissions>
        <editable>false</editable>
        <field>Case.ContactId</field>
        <readable>false</readable>
    </fieldPermissions>
    <fieldPermissions>
        <editable>false</editable>
        <field>Case.Description</field>
        <readable>false</readable>
    </fieldPermissions>

So I store parsed fields in a map like this in map:

delList.put(file.name, [
            fields: [Case.ContactId, Case.ClosedDate...], recordTypes: [], objects: []
    ])

The end result that I want is: For instance, I want to delete Case.ContactId, I store it in my delList map, but I don't know how can delete the whole parent section with all the children inside of it so the end XML file should look like this :

    <fieldPermissions>
        <editable>false</editable>
        <field>Case.ClosedDate</field>
        <readable>false</readable>
    </fieldPermissions>
    <fieldPermissions>
        <editable>false</editable>
        <field>Case.ClosedOnCreate</field>
        <readable>false</readable>
    </fieldPermissions>
     //This was Case.ContactId section that i want to delete
    <fieldPermissions>
        <editable>false</editable>
        <field>Case.Description</field>
        <readable>false</readable>
    </fieldPermissions>

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33863015/how-to-remove-an-element-in-groovy-using-xmlslurper — daggett, Jun 14 '19 at 11:30

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 14 '19 at 12:14

To remove the node in the question, you can just do:

def xml = '''
<xml>
   <fieldPermissions>
        <editable>false</editable>
        <field>Case.ClosedDate</field>
        <readable>false</readable>
    </fieldPermissions>
    <fieldPermissions>
        <editable>false</editable>
        <field>Case.ClosedOnCreate</field>
        <readable>false</readable>
    </fieldPermissions>
    <fieldPermissions>
        <editable>false</editable>
        <field>Case.ContactId</field>
        <readable>false</readable>
    </fieldPermissions>
    <fieldPermissions>
        <editable>false</editable>
        <field>Case.Description</field>
        <readable>false</readable>
    </fieldPermissions>
</xml>
'''

import groovy.xml.XmlUtil

def doc = new XmlSlurper().parseText(xml)

doc.fieldPermissions.find { it.field.text() == 'Case.ContactId' }.replaceNode {}

println XmlUtil.serialize(doc)

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 14 '19 at 15:08

1

So we found a way in the end, tim's answer helped, thanks

delList.each { profileName, value ->
    def profile = xs.parse(new File(profileFolder.path  + "/" + profileName))

if (value.fields.size() > 0) {
    profile.fieldPermissions.each { fieldPermission ->
        if (value.fields.find { it == fieldPermission.field.text() }) {
            fieldPermission.replaceNode {}
        }
    }
}



  //println groovy.xml.XmlUtil.serialize( profile )
}

Our main issue was, the path....

answered Jun 14 '19 at 15:08

zugy

33
6

Cool... You can replace `if (value.fields.size() > 0)` with `if (value.fields)` ... And `if (value.fields.find { it == fieldPermission.field.text() })` with `if (fieldPermission.field.text() in value.fields)` for maximum Grooviness – tim_yates Jun 14 '19 at 15:28

How to delete specific parent(with children) section, having only the element XML using groovy

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