I just started working with Retrofit. I am working on a project that uses SimpleXML. Can somebody provide me an example in which one fetches an XML from a site e.g. http://www.w3schools.com/xml/simple.xml" and reads it out?
You will create an interface as a new class in your project:
public interface ApiService {
@GET("/xml/simple.xml")
YourObject getUser();
}
Then in your activity you will call the following:
RestAdapter restAdapter = new RestAdapter.Builder()
.setEndpoint("http://www.w3schools.com")
.setConverter(new SimpleXmlConverter())
.build();
ApiService apiService = restAdapter.create(ApiService.class);
YourObject object = apiService.getXML();
To get your libraries correctly, in your build.gradle file you need to do the following:
configurations {
compile.exclude group: 'stax'
compile.exclude group: 'xpp3'
}
dependencies {
compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
compile 'com.squareup.retrofit:retrofit:1.6.1'
compile 'com.mobprofs:retrofit-simplexmlconverter:1.1'
compile 'org.simpleframework:simple-xml:2.7.1'
compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.2.4'
}
Then you need to specify YourObject and add annotations to it according to the structure of the xml file
@Root(name = "breakfast_menu")
public class BreakFastMenu {
@ElementList(inline = true)
List<Food> foodList;
}
@Root(name="food")
public class Food {
@Element(name = "name")
String name;
@Element(name = "price")
String price;
@Element(name = "description")
String description;
@Element(name = "calories")
String calories;
}