Hi again Per, Have you seen Gradle ? I believe that Gradle might provide what you are trying to do. Personally I'm not a Gradle fan, but many are.
Tommy Svensson On 20 May 2025 at 10:38 +0200, Per Nyfelt <per.nyf...@nordnet.se>, wrote: > Thanks Tommy, > My problem was in the context of a custom ant task. I found that if I let go > of the idea of "arbitrary additional content" and defined what the different > additional sections could be, it was quite easy to do. My solution is here: > https://github.com/Alipsa/uso/blob/main/uso-tasks/src/main/groovy/se/alipsa/uso/tasks/CreatePom.groovy > in case anyone is interested. > > Best regards, > Per > > On Mon, 19 May 2025 at 14:01, <to...@natusoft.se> wrote: > > Hello Per, > > > > I don't know of anything existing that does what you want. But, in Groovy > > you can easily define structures like JSON or XML (which both give you a > > structure but does so using different formats. > > > > Example: Map<String, Object> root = [ "id": "QAZ", "name" : "Nisse", ... ] > > > > This is a java.util.Map structure. Your code can then take this Map<String, > > Object> and convert to JSON or XML. But I don't know of anything existing > > that takes such a Map structure to XML. I would not be entirely surprised > > if such exists. > > > > In my current project I'm using the Groovy Map shortcut [ : ] to build > > structured information. In my case it will be converted to JSON and > > potentially other structured formats later. But as long as you have the > > information stored in some structured way it should be relatively easy to > > convert to XML. Reading both JSON and XML is by far more difficult than > > producing them. > > > > Best Regards, > > > > Tommy Svensson > > On 18 May 2025 at 20:38 +0200, Per Nyfelt <p...@alipsa.se>, wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I would like to have a user api that can handle the following: > > > > > > createXml(target: xmlFile, name: 'a test') { > > > > > > description('test xml') > > > > > > licenses { > > > license('Apache License, Version 2.0', > > > 'http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0') > > > } > > > > > > } > > > > > > // description and licenses are arbitrary, it can be any structure that > > > can be converted to XML > > > > > > I want the closure to behave as if it would be statements to a > > > MarkupBuilder but I am unable to figure out how to do it. Can i convert > > > the closure to a MarkupBuilder or process it with a MarkupBuilder > > > somehow? Any ideas? > > > > > > Best regards > > > > > > Per > > >
