JavaDude's Groovy Snippets

It is straight forward to access Snipplr via XML-RPC with Groovy. In this tutorial we use the Groovy Console to play with Snipplr snippets.

Requirements:

• Groovy Installed
• Snipplr Account (snipplr.com)
• Your Snipplr API Key from your settings page (snipplr.com/settings)
• The XML-RPC library (groovy-xmlrpc-0.4.jar or newer)

Tutorial:

• Start the Groovy Console (usually with groovyConsole from a shell)
  

  Groovy Console

• Add the XML-RPC library (Scripts| Add jar to classpath)
  

  Add library

• The Snippet
  

  
  

   

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  You have 7 snippets and favorites
  [id:25390, title:Create simple XML with MarkupBuilder, updated:[timezone:-05:00 EST, datetime:Thu Dec 24 10:13:50 CET 2009], favorite:false, private:false]
  [id:25410, title:Create simple XML with StreamingMarkupBuilder (pretty-printed), updated:[timezone:-05:00 EST, datetime:Fri Dec 25 04:30:52 CET 2009], favorite:false, private:false]
  [id:24147, title:Finding the Longest Consonant Cluster, updated:[timezone:-05:00 EST, datetime:Wed Dec 02 12:15:07 CET 2009], favorite:true, private:false]
  [id:2090, title:Groovy Series: Regular Expressions 1/3, updated:[timezone:-05:00 EST, datetime:Fri Feb 02 11:42:05 CET 2007], favorite:true, private:false]
  import groovy.xml.*
  def createXML() {
  def xml = new groovy.xml.StreamingMarkupBuilder().bind(){
  mkp.xmlDeclaration()
  content() {
  parameter(x:0)
  person(id:100){
  firstname("John")
  lastname("Long")
  }
  person(id:101){
  firstname("Ken")
  lastname("Smith")
  }
  }
  }
  XmlUtil.serialize(xml)
  }
  def static main(def args) {
  def x = createXML()
  println x
  }
  xml groovy prettyprint StreamingMarkupBuilder
  2009-12-25 03:37:20

  Take a look at the API documentation at snipplr.com