Directory structure to xml - display in flex tree

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Below code can be used to convert directory structure in xml.

require 'rubygems' require 'rexml/document'

class DirectoryStructure @@excludes = ["..","."] @@doc = REXML::Document.new %{ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> }

def self.traverse_directory(root_path)

  #traverse initial directory structure   folder = @@doc.add_element( 'myroot',{'id' => root_path} )

  #call loop_path with root_path and parent_node   loop_path(root_path,folder)   #create xml file    open( "final_directory_structure.xml", "w" ) do |f|     f.puts @@doc   end

end

def self.loop_path(path,parent_node)

dir_entries= Dir.entries(path)

# don't need '.','..' dir_entries = dir_entries-['.','..']

dir_entries.each do | entry |

# check if directory or file if File.directory?(path+"/"+entry)

   #Folders Loop -------------------------------------------------    #Gets the directories of the current node.    #It changes for each recursive call    folder = parent_node.add_element( 'folder' ,{'label' =>entry ,'file_path' => path+"/"+entry } )    loop_path( path+"/"+entry, folder ) else    #Files Loop ------------------------------------------------------    file = parent_node.add_element( 'file' ,{'label' =>entry ,'file_path' => path+"/"+entry } )

end

end

end

#first call to traverse directory self.traverse_directory("Authentication/Authentication")

end