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Groovy xml to map grouping duplicate keys

I have a xml response and i want it to be converted to a map but some xml nodes are duplicate so i want those to be converted to List of maps. Currently I'm using this code suggested in this post : xmlslurper-to-return-all-xml-elements-into-a-map

Thanks in advance.

Sample :

<head>test</head>
<tail>
    <name>1</name>
    <name>2</name>
</tail>
</body>

and I want the following map :

["head" : "test" , "tail" : [["name":"1"],["name":"2"]]]
Solution

  • After some struggling I wrote this code to solve my problem, I tried to use MultiValueMap either but it was converting all the values to list so Finally I had to write in on my own :

    def xml = new groovy.xml.XmlSlurper().parse(response)
convertToMap(xml)

    def convertToMap(nodes) {
        def map = [:]
        nodes?.children()?.each {
            def key = it.name()
            def value = it.childNodes() ? convertToMap(it) : it.text()
            if (map.containsKey(key)) {
                def currentValue = map.get(key)
                if (currentValue instanceof List) {
                    currentValue.add(value)
                } else {
                    map.put(key, [currentValue, value])
                }
            } else {
                map.put(key, value)
            }
        }
        map
    }