Source code for eodal.utils.types

"""
Custom types for *eodal*

Copyright (C) 2022 Lukas Valentin Graf

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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"""

from xml.etree.ElementTree import Element




def xml_to_dict_recursive(root: Element) -> dict:
    """
    Convert a XML Element to a dictionary recursively.

    Taken from:
    https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2148119/how-to-convert-an-xml-string-to-a-dictionary

    :param root: XML Element to convert to dictionary.
    :return: resulting dictionary
    """

    if len(list(root)) == 0:
        return {root.tag:root.text}
    else:
        return {root.tag:list(map(xml_to_dict_recursive, list(root)))}