Java Question how to get id of xml file?

[DonManfred]

To set the defaults in the firebase remoteconfig we need to use for example a xml with the content...

Asume that the file is placed in res/xml/ and it is named remoteconfigdefaults.xml

it contains:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!-- START xml_defaults -->
<defaultsMap>
<entry>
<key>price_prefix</key>
<value>Your price is $</value>
</entry>
<entry>
<key>loading_phrase</key>
<value>Checking your price…</value>
</entry>
<entry>
<key>is_promotion_on</key>
<value>false</value>
</entry>
<entry>
<key>price</key>
<value>100</value>
</entry>
<entry>
<key>discount</key>
<value>0</value>
</entry>
</defaultsMap>
<!-- END xml_defaults -->

How do i get the id of the xml to use it in the wrapper?

    /**
     * Sets defaults in the default namespace,
     * using an XML resource.
     * @param resourceId
     */
    public void setDefaults (String resource){
         BA.Log("Calling SetDefaults... "+resource);
        int resourceId=BA.applicationContext.getResources().getIdentifier(resource, "string", BA.packageName);
         BA.Log("resourceID="+resourceId);
        getObject().setDefaults(resourceId);
    }

i tried it with

 int resourceId=BA.applicationContext.getResources().getIdentifier(resource, "string", BA.packageName);

with

 int resourceId=BA.applicationContext.getResources().getIdentifier(resource, "xml", BA.packageName);

and i tried it with remoteconfigdefaults and remoteconfigdefaults.xml as string in the methodcall.

All does not work and results in a resourceId of 0

How do i get the id of an xml resource? Where do i need to place the xml?

 

[Johan Schoeman]

To set the defaults in the firebase remoteconfig we need to use for example a xml with the content...

Asume that the file is placed in res/xml/ and it is named remoteconfigdefaults.xml

it contains:



How do i get the id of the xml to use it in the wrapper?

    /**
     * Sets defaults in the default namespace,
     * using an XML resource.
     * @param resourceId
     */
    public void setDefaults (String resource){
         BA.Log("Calling SetDefaults... "+resource);
        int resourceId=BA.applicationContext.getResources().getIdentifier(resource, "string", BA.packageName);
         BA.Log("resourceID="+resourceId);
        getObject().setDefaults(resourceId);
    }

i tried it with

 int resourceId=BA.applicationContext.getResources().getIdentifier(resource, "string", BA.packageName);

with

 int resourceId=BA.applicationContext.getResources().getIdentifier(resource, "xml", BA.packageName);

and i tried it with remoteconfigdefaults and remoteconfigdefaults.xml as string in the methodcall.

All does not work and results in a resourceId of 0

How do i get the id of an xml resource? Where do i need to place the xml?

Just guessing here but try and change "string" to "values"

 

[DonManfred]

Just guessing here but try and change "string" to "values"

does not work too

 

[Johan Schoeman]

does not work too

What about "values/string" ?

 

[DonManfred]

the content is not a string resource. the code above will work fine for strings in a strings.xml. But it must be RESOURCES

i dont think it will help to use values/string here as getIdentifier does expect a TYPE there. string, id, drawable works... But dont know how to get an id of an unknown xml.

 

[Johan Schoeman]

the content is not a string resource. the code above will work fine for strings in a strings.xml. But it must be RESOURCES

i dont think it will help to use values/string here as getIdentifier does expect a TYPE there. string, id, drawable works... But dont know how to get an id of an unknown xml.

See if this posting is of any help

http://android-er.blogspot.co.za/2010/04/read-xml-resources-in-android-using.html

 

[DonManfred]

Not really . I don't need to get the xml content or even don't need to parse. I just need the Id of this resource

 

[DonManfred]

Never mind... I can use a Map to set the defaults... So i changed the method to use the map instead of an xml....

for now it is ok... i´ll check the other methods now...

If it works then i wrote my first wrap using an aar library ;-)

I´ve made a wrap for Firebase RemoteConfig...

 

[somed3v3loper]

All does not work and results in a resourceId of 0

How do i get the id of an xml resource? Where do i need to place the xml?

Were you able to get id of resource ?
I have a similar problem but I am trying to get drawable id .
resourceid is always 0
I changed "id" to "drawable" and got an int like 2130837505 but I always get android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource ID #0xffffffff

int resourceId =ba.applicationContext.getResources().getIdentifier(imagename, "id", ba.applicationContext.getPackageName());

 

[DonManfred]

Were you able to get id of resource ?

No. As i wrote above i realized that i could use a map. I used a map then.


This is how i do it always if i need to get a drawabled from the resourcefolder.

  public Drawable getDrawable(final BA ba, String stringResource) {
         int resourceId=BA.applicationContext.getResources().getIdentifier(stringResource, "drawable", BA.packageName);
         return BA.applicationContext.getResources().getDrawable(resourceId);
  }

in this case the drawable must be referenced by its file name without extension.

#additionalres: ..\res

the drawable must be inside the folder res\drawable\

Hope it helps