I'm new to Grails/Groovy and am trying to find a node in a an xml file; I've figured out how to iterate over all of them, but I want to exit the loop when the target node is found. I've read that instead of using "each", use "find", but the find examples I've seen are conditions. Right now the logic I have is going to iterate through the whole file without exiting. The code is below:
records.children().each {domain ->
println "domain_name: " + domain.@domain_name
if (domain.@domain_name == targetDomain) {
println "target domain matched: " + domain.@domain_name
domain.children().each {misc_field ->
println "field_name: " + misc_field.@field_name
println "field_type: " + misc_field.@field_type
println "field_value: " + misc_field
}
}
}
Best Answer
You cannot do it elegantly. You might see some people suggest throwing an Exception, but that's just plain ugly.
Here's some mailing list discussion on using
each
vs.for
, and a couple people say thatfor
is preferred because ofeach
's inability to break from the iteration.Your best bet is probably to change over to a
for
loop and iterate:Either that, or like you said, maybe use find or findAll to find the element you're looking for (the following code is paraphrased, I don't have time yet to test it out):
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