[GROOVY-2234] XmlParser results are missing ability to set attribute values using assignment

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.1-rc-3
• Environment: 1.1-rc-1
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Marshall Schor
• Created: 22/Oct/07 08:54
• Updated: 30/Nov/07 06:22
• Resolved: 22/Nov/07 05:41

Description

A common groovy style is to allow setting of things using assignment. The groovy.util.Node objects, produced by XmlParser, have accessors which look like GPath with a little enhancement for attributes: the selector name must be quoted (but see issue http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GROOVY-2233 ) and must start with an "@"; for example: xxx.subnode_name.'@attr_name'

The part of the implementation that allows "setting" of these by using assignment is failing. Failing example:
aNode.'@attrName' = 'new value'

If the attribute is not already present, this gives a message "no field named attrName found, rather than doing the right thing of adding (or updating) that attribute.