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At my doctors office

Anything but the other

Just had to take a picture of this poster providing information about flu, where someone had added a small piece of information “Look up!! Youtube Chemitrails!!!” Conspiracy theories all over. Better “Look to your orb for the warning”

And the old man, down by the river
Well he walks up and he walks on down
To the spaceship that’s parked at your doorstep
And it’s waiting to take you away now

Groovy XML-script that is copying elements and changing attribute values

Work/Geek

Based on all the good examples provided by http://groovy.codehaus.org/ I’v managed to create a Groovy script that do

  • Find all elements with a name attribute prefixed with ‘DEV_’
  • For all found elements, search for element with identical name attribute, but without prefix ‘DEV_’. If element found, remove it
  • Create a copy of the element with the ‘DEV_’ prefix and then
    • Remove the prefix
    • Change the value of the attribute driver
    • Add the copy to the list of cars
  • Write the updated XML to file

Click more to view the script. Sorry for the limited display of code in my blog.
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import groovy.xml.DOMBuilder
import groovy.xml.dom.DOMCategory
import groovy.xml.dom.DOMUtil

class CarExamples {
static def CAR_RECORDS = '''
    <records>
      <car name='HSV Maloo' make='Holden' year='2006'>
        <country>Australia</country>
        <record type='speed'>Production Pickup Truck with speed of 271kph</record>
      </car>
      <car name='P50' make='Peel' year='1962'>
        <country>Isle of Man</country>
        <record type='size'>Smallest Street-Legal Car at 99cm wide and 59 kg in weight</record>
      </car>
      <car name='Royale' make='Bugatti' year='1931'>
        <country>France</country>
        <record type='price'>Most Valuable Car at $15 million</record>
      </car>
    </records>
  '''}

def reader  = new StringReader(CarExamples.CAR_RECORDS)
def doc     = DOMBuilder.parse(reader)
def records = doc.documentElement

use (DOMCategory) {

	println "There are " + records.'*'.size() + " cars defined in the file"
    def cars = records.'car'
	println "The parent element for cars are " + cars[0].parent().getTagName()
    def dev_cars = cars.findAll{it."@name".startsWith("DEV_")}
	println " "
	dev_cars.each {
		def nameofdev = it."@name"
		println "Dev name: " + nameofdev
		def stringArr = nameofdev.split("DEV_")
		def deleteMeName = stringArr[1]
		println "Node to remove has name: " + deleteMeName
		def deleteRecord = cars.find{ it.'@name' == deleteMeName }
		if (null != deleteRecord) {
			records.removeChild(deleteRecord)
		}
		def copyOfDev = it.cloneNode(true)
		copyOfDev.setAttribute("name", deleteMeName)
		copyOfDev.setAttribute("driver", "racer")
		records.appendChild(copyOfDev)
		println "\n"
	}
}

outputFile = new File("resultfile.xml")
outputFile.write(DOMUtil.serialize(records))

Groovy startup error on Windows

Work/Geek

Trying out Groovy on my laptop running Windows XP and kept getting the errormessage:

error: could not find client or server jvm under C:\apps\IBM\SDP\jdk\bin
please check that it is a valid jdk / jre containing the desired type of jvm

JAVA_HOME was set, tried to add the path to the jdk, but still did not help. Then found the solution at …startup-error-….html. Problem was that when issuing the command ‘groovy’ alone it runs the groovy.exe, but the .exe-file does not handle the paths correct for some reason. Running groovy.bat fixes the problem since it handles the paths correctly.