Implemented showing returned type (#112) (#148)

Co-authored-by: Adam Bem <adam.bem@zoho.eu>
Reviewed-on: #148
Reviewed-by: Mikolaj Widla <widlam@noreply.example.com>

Backend-libXML/Parser.py

@@ -54,12 +54,12 @@ def xpath(source: str, xpath: str) -> str:
     # root.xpath can return 4 types: float, string, bool and list.
     # List is the only one that can't be simply converted to str
     if type(result) is not list:
-        return str(result)
+        return str(result), type(result).__name__
     else:
         result_string = ""
         for e in result:
             result_string += etree.tostring(e, pretty_print=True).decode() + "\n"
-        return result_string
+        return result_string, "node"
 
 
 

Backend-libXML/main.py

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ def process_xml(request: request, type: str) -> str:
         elif (type == "xslt"):
             response_json['result'] = Parser.xslt(data, process)
         elif (type == "xpath"):
-            response_json['result'] = Parser.xpath(data, process)
+            response_json['result'], response_json['type'] = Parser.xpath(data, process)
         elif (type == "prettify"):
             response_json['result'] = Parser.formatXML(data, True)
         elif (type == "minimize"):