I have an xml configuration file built using commons config (XMLConfiguration)
<servers>
<server>
<name>Google</name>
<address>www.google.com</address>
<server>
<server>
<name>Yahoo</name>
<address>www.yahoo.com</address>
</server>
</servers>
I can obtain the correct node to update by getting a list of servers like this:
List<HierarchicalConfiguration> serverList = config.configurationsAt("server");
for(HierarchicalConfiguration server : serverList){
if(server.getString("name").equals("Google")){
//now I have the node I want to work with
// and I can update it but I cannot delete it completely
}
I don't understand how to delete the node. If I call server.clear(), the data disappears, but an empty node remains.
<servers>
<server/>
<server>
<name>Yahoo</name>
<address>www.yahoo.com</address>
</server>
</servers>
What I'd like to do is remove the node completely.
I did find a way to do it. Not sure if it's the best way, but for anybody else looking:
You need to find the index of the node, then delete it by address using XMLConfiguration.clearProperty() or XMLConfiguration.clearTree(). Here is an example using the configuration file in my question:
//config is my XMLConfiguration object
List<HierarchicalConfiguration> serverList = config.configurationsAt("server");
Integer index = 0;
for(HierarchicalConfiguration server : serverList){
if(server.getString("name").equals("Google")){
//for Google, this evaluates to "server(0)", for Yahoo, "server(1)"
config.clearTree("server("+Integer.toString(index)+")");
}
index++; //increment the index at the end of each loop
}
//don't forget to write changes to file
config.save();