Cant write json output to a XML file
Below is my code to specifically get values at
result._source.city
node.
import net.sf.*;
import net.sf.json.*;
import net.sf.json.groovy.*;
import net.sf.json.groovy.JsonSlurper;
...
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I manage to write json in to a file using below code.
import net.sf.*;
import net.sf.json.*;
import net.sf.json.groovy.*;
import net.sf.json.groovy.JsonSlurper;
def Res = context.expand( '${GetAllSchoolsForAustralia#Response}' )
def slurper = new JsonSlurper()
def json = slurper.parseText Res
def countryList = json.result._source.city
log.info countryList
def file = new File('D:/XXX/CityListAU.txt');
// save the response to it
file << countryList
I hope you don't mind but your question and answer piqued my interest to why one would work but not the other, so I investigated this a bit further. So, just incase anyone else comes across this post, I believe the reason the .write method fails but the .leftShift (the "<<" operator) succeeds is that the Json Slurper returns lists or maps of objects. Thus the variable "countryList" in the above examples is a Groovy List.
You can see from the Groovy File Class Java Docs that the two methods signatures are:
write(String text, String charset)
&
leftShift(Object text)
Thus you can see how you can pass a List to leftShift (Where I assume that the toString() method is called), but not to the write method which explicitly expects a string.
Hope this might help somebody.
