Add XML elements using data from slice

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Hello all,

I’m making a simple program which perform some XML API calls. In one of the calls I get data in a slice, which contain ID’s. My next step would be to put those ID’s inside of XML body and make another API call.

Normally I would send an XML body like this:

<packet>
<customer>
     <get-domain-list>
          <filter>
 <id>138</id>
          </filter>
     </get-domain-list>
</customer>
</packet>

but in my case I would like to insert several tags with all the ID’s I have stored in my slice. For example

<packet>
<customer>
     <get-domain-list>
          <filter>
 <id>138</id>
 <id>139</id>
 <id>140</id>
 <id>141</id>
          </filter>
     </get-domain-list>
</customer>
</packet>

Then I would like to know how I could create the XML body inserting the content of my slice?

Thanks very much,
Alejandro B.

2

Please check https://www.onlinetool.io/xmltogo/
Just paste your xml and the application generates its correspoding golang structure

type Packet struct {
	XMLName  xml.Name `xml:"packet"`
	Text     string   `xml:",chardata"`
	Customer struct {
		Text          string `xml:",chardata"`
		GetDomainList struct {
			Text   string `xml:",chardata"`
			Filter struct {
				Text string   `xml:",chardata"`
				ID   []string `xml:"id"`
			} `xml:"filter"`
		} `xml:"get-domain-list"`
	} `xml:"customer"`
}
3

Hi Yamil,

thanks for your help!

I already hace the structure. but my question is, how can I insert in

				ID   []string `xml:"id"`

my slice which was the result of another api call? I see in the example you pasted here, the ID parameter is a Slice string []string.

Thanks and all the best

4

To access the ID slide you can use some code as

package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"encoding/xml"
)

type Packet struct {
	XMLName  xml.Name `xml:"packet"`
	Text     string   `xml:",chardata"`
	Customer struct {
		Text          string `xml:",chardata"`
		GetDomainList struct {
			Text   string `xml:",chardata"`
			Filter struct {
				Text string   `xml:",chardata"`
				ID   []string `xml:"id"`
			} `xml:"filter"`
		} `xml:"get-domain-list"`
	} `xml:"customer"`
}

func main() {
   rawXmlData := "<packet><customer><get-domain-list><filter> <id>138</id><id>139</id><id>140</id><id>141</id></filter></get-domain-list></customer></packet>";
var packet Packet 
    xml.Unmarshal([]byte(rawXmlData), &packet)

fmt.Println(packet.Customer.GetDomainList .Filter.ID)
}
5

Hi Yamil,

I understand it, but in this case you are extracting the ID from the XML, in my case I want to insert the ID’s in the XML. I already manage to run unmarshal properly to get some information.

But for what I want to achive, I need to build the XML body and adding the ID’s I already have in my slice.

Maybe I’m not explaining properly what I want to achieve.

thanks

6

Just create the corresponding field as slide

packet.Customer.GetDomainList .Filter.ID =  make([]string, 2)
 packet.Customer.GetDomainList .Filter.ID  = append(packet.Customer.GetDomainList .Filter.ID , "10001")
 packet.Customer.GetDomainList .Filter.ID  = append(packet.Customer.GetDomainList .Filter.ID , "10002")
7

Thanks! I will give it a try and come back to you!

All the best

8

Hope this helps!!!

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