Creating hashmap/map from XML resources

Question

I\'m making an application where a web service fetches (amongst other) a bunch of codes from a webservice (I.e BEL, FRA, SWE). During runtime I want to translate these codes

Answer 1

Also you can define a map in XML, put it in res/xml and parse to HashMap (suggested in this post). If you want to keep key order parse to LinkedHashMap. Simple implementation follows:

Map resource in res/xml:

Resource parser:

public class ResourceUtils {
    public static Map getHashMapResource(Context c, int hashMapResId) {
        Map map = null;
        XmlResourceParser parser = c.getResources().getXml(hashMapResId);

        String key = null, value = null;

        try {
            int eventType = parser.getEventType();

            while (eventType != XmlPullParser.END_DOCUMENT) {
                if (eventType == XmlPullParser.START_DOCUMENT) {
                    Log.d("utils","Start document");
                } else if (eventType == XmlPullParser.START_TAG) {
                    if (parser.getName().equals("map")) {
                        boolean isLinked = parser.getAttributeBooleanValue(null, "linked", false);

                        map = isLinked ? new LinkedHashMap() : new HashMap();
                    } else if (parser.getName().equals("entry")) {
                        key = parser.getAttributeValue(null, "key");

                        if (null == key) {
                            parser.close();
                            return null;
                        }
                    }
                } else if (eventType == XmlPullParser.END_TAG) {
                    if (parser.getName().equals("entry")) {
                        map.put(key, value);
                        key = null;
                        value = null;
                    }
                } else if (eventType == XmlPullParser.TEXT) {
                    if (null != key) {
                        value = parser.getText();
                    }
                }
                eventType = parser.next();
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }

        return map;
    }
}