Get drawable image by its name

Issue

I have a model and it has a specific country flag:

public int getCountryFlag() {
    return countryFlag;
}

public void setCountryFlag(int countryFlag) {
    this.countryFlag = countryFlag;
}

I am getting Data from an API. The API has a value country code and this could be like: "country":"de","created_at":"2018-08-08 09:17:43","updated_at":"2018-08-08 09:17:43"

I have the flags named as the country code:

de
se
us
....

How can I get the exact resourceID of the image to relate it to the model? I am using RecyclerView.

I tried something like:

int resID = getResources().getIdentifier(object.getString("country"), "drawable",  getPackageName());
model.setCountryFlag(R.drawable.sy);

Though that didn't work!

Solution

If you're sure about the format of the api string then do the following:

String country = api.trim().split(",")[0].split(":")[1].replaceAll("\"", "");

or

String country = api.trim().substring(11, 13);

and then:

int resID = getResources().getIdentifier(country, "drawable",  getPackageName());
model.setCountryFlag(resID);

Answered By - user8959091