Question

I need a code example of groovy script which can access a xml file stored anywhere in my file system .
In this xml file i have the database credentials , my script need to access the database .
below is the xml

<jdbc-datasource>
    <url>dbURL</url>
    <driver-class>jdbcDriver</driver-class>
    <username>admin</username>
    <password>admin</password>
</jdbc-datasource>

Thanks in Advance 🙂

Answer 1

Say the file is at: /home/mizan/db.xml

Then this should do it:

def dbxml = new File( '/home/mizan/db.xml' ).withReader {
  new XmlSlurper().parse( it )
}

// Check it has worked...
assert dbxml.'driver-class' == 'jdbcDriver'