looking for something like xmlslurper (groovy) for...

# announcements

[tess_snow]

looking for something like xmlslurper (groovy) for kotlin. Kotlin XML Binding (http://jonnyzzz.com/blog/2016/01/06/kotlin-xml/) seems useable. Opinions? Need to figure out how to parse an XML string into an object too using this lib..

[kristofdho]

the git repo shows (sort of) how to parse them (https://github.com/jonnyzzz/kotlin.xml.bind), this one looks cleaner tho imo: https://github.com/kongsin/KotlinXMLParser

[kristofdho]

but if you can, you should use json instead

[tess_snow]

Thanks.
json sure, but not an option - rewrite of a legacy system very xml centric..

[kristofdho]

as in xml setting files only used server side, or client provided xml files

[kristofdho]

because if it's all hidden it might be beneficial to switch to json, and maybe for now temporarily provide legacy xml support

[tess_snow]

it’s GSRL7 xml files server side as specified by Dun & Bradstreet our partner. Nothing much to do about it 😉

[tess_snow]

Finally did it like this, there might be other ways..

val operationMetadata = JDOM.load(parseXml(messageText), OperationMetadata::class.java)

    private fun parseXml(messageText: String): Element {
        val saxBuilder = SAXBuilder()
        return saxBuilder.build(messageText.reader()).rootElement
    }

[kirillrakhman]

how about JSONx 🧌 ?
https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SS9H2Y_6.0.0/com.ibm.dp.xg.doc/json_jsonx.html

[tess_snow]

thanks, will check it out 🙂