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id-chalmers
Mentor
10 years ago

Accessing inner text of freemarker xml response elements

I'm using the lithium rest API and having a problem accessing elements' contained text values in the XML response. I can get the @attributes values but trying to get the text value of the element ret...
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OlivierS
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
10 years ago

id-chalmers to debug this, you could go into Studio / API Browser and do:

 

SELECT * FROM categories WHERE id = 'platinum_groups'

 

And would see that the resutls is encapsulated (probably not the correct term) in 'items' and not 'group'.

 

2015-04-14_0037.png

 

So your code should be:

 

<#assign groups = rest("/categories/id/platinum_groups/groups/list").groups/>
${groups.@@markup}
<ul class="groups-list">
<#list groups.items as group>
<li><a href="${group.@view_href}">${group.default_role.short_title}</a></li>
</#list>
</ul>