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Pablo Pazos commented on GROOVY-5682:
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[~paulk] I'm running into this issue. My case is generating alternative XML
structures for testing a system. The process is:
# provided a sample XML
# there is a generatedor that uses XmlParser to parse the sample and traverse
the nodes
# when if finds a specific node, it generates different values for it's
children
# each generated value does a clone of the original xml
# then on the clone, the generated values are inserted and the cloned xml is
saved in an array to be serialized later
The issue is in 5 I need to execute replaceNode, and for the node I have, from
the cloned structure, I get "can't replace the root element", of course the
issue is the current node doesn't have the parent set because it was cloned.
I don't have a workaround in terms of using the replaceNode{} though I can
start setting parents by hand, is not a good solution for something that I
think should come out the clone() method without my intervention.
Now I'm testing the methods submitted by Manish as an alternative to the native
clone() method.
> Add clone or copy constructor to XML Node
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>
> Key: GROOVY-5682
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-5682
> Project: Groovy
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Affects Versions: 2.0.1
> Reporter: Marcel Szalbach
> Assignee: Paul King
> Priority: Minor
> Fix For: 2.0.2, 2.1.0-beta-1
>
>
> When retrieving an node from an XML there is no easy way to clone this node
> for further processing without changing the original XML.
> Currently I used a workaround:
> {code:java}
> def clonedNode = new XmlParser().parseText( XmlUtil.serialize( xmlNode ) )
> {code}
> It would be a lot easier if the Node object have a copy constructor or clone
> would be supported.
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