Scala XML processing example

Example scala project to demontrate scala’s built-in support for XML and its more concise syntax for dealing with iterables and collections. Read the full accompanying blog post

Usage

Assumes you have jdk, scala and sbt installed. Clone and run sbt test from the root directory below.

Current Build Status

Entry point

Main.scala - simple main method to load an asset xml, allocate the correct asset from the AssetFactory and print the xml representation for this asset.

Project structure

The structure of this project:

Application directory (scala-xml-parsing-example.root)
  - src
    - main
      - scala
        - com
          - cookybear
            - content
              - asset
    - test
      -resources
        - xml
      - scala
        - com
          - cookybear
            - content
              - asset
              - util

Here's a brief rundown of each directory and its contents.

src/main/scala/com/cookbear/content/asset

Contains domain classes implemented with toXML fromXML methods, equivalent of java POJO's.

src/test/resources/xml

Represents xml fixtures used in unit tests, snippets of xml.

src/test/scala/com/cookbear/content/asset

Unit test classes implemented using scalatest and junit runner

src/test/scala/com/cookbear/content/util

Utility classes used by unit test, for example fixture loader