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Miwa
Miwa

Reputation: 45

Boost property tree : how to get child of child tree with a xml file

I try to parse a simple xml file using Boost library (version 1.57.0.2) and I try to access to link field values.

Please find, here below my xml file :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<down>
    <food name="cream">
        <link name="123" />
        <link name="456" />
    </food>
    <tel name="ice">
        <link name="78" />
        <link name="90" />
    </tel>
</down>

I try to see how to get child of child from web and do the same but I don't understand why it doesn't work with my code.

I have the following error :

error: 'const value_type {aka const struct std::pair<const std::__cxx11::basic_string<char>, boost::property_tree::basic_ptree<std::__cxx11::basic_string<char>, std::__cxx11::basic_string<char> > >}' has no member named 'get_child'|

Please find my code here below :

boost::property_tree::xml_parser::read_xml(path.xml, tree);

BOOST_FOREACH(const boost::property_tree::ptree::value_type &child_tree, tree.get_child("down"))
{
    std::string tree_balise = tree.first;

    if (tree_balise == "food")
    {
        BOOST_FOREACH(const boost::property_tree::ptree::value_type &child_of_child_tree, child_tree.get_child("food"))
        {
            std::cout << "I am in the child of child tree" << std::endl;
        }
    }
}

Does somebody could tell me why this error appears ? Am I missing something ?

Thank you for your help.

Miwa.

Upvotes: 2

Views: 12069

Answers (1)

JustRufus
JustRufus

Reputation: 542

  1. Actually boost::property_tree::ptree::value_type is a pair of key_type (std::string in your case) and ptree. So in 2nd FOREACH you have to use child_tree.second and error says that pair has no get_child member function.

  2. In 2nd FOREACH scope you are already in "food" subtree. So it doesn't have "food" child.

    BOOST_FOREACH( const ptree::value_type & child_tree, tree.get_child("down") )
{
    std::string tree_balise = child_tree.first;

    if (tree_balise == "food")
    {
        BOOST_FOREACH( const ptree::value_type & child_of_child_tree, child_tree.second )
        {
            std::cout << "I am in the child of child tree " << child_of_child_tree.first << std::endl;
        }
    }
}

Also Note that you can directly get "down.food" subtree.

BOOST_FOREACH( const ptree::value_type & child_tree, tree.get_child("down.food") )
{
    std::cout << "I am in the child of child tree " << child_tree.first << std::endl;
}

Upvotes: 3

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