Re: Anyone else using Groovy?

> Well, for me there are a couple of things.  I actually really like  
> some of the groovy language idioms.  I find that I'm often taking a  
> list of objects and making a list of IDs or vice versa.  In Java this  
> is a bit verbose, but I like groovy's style:
>
> List<Long> ids = foos.collect { it.getId(); }
>
> And for me, getting rid of getters/setters is actually significant.  
> I don't like the clutter, and more importantly it makes it much more  
> obvious when you have a non-standard getter or setter (lazy loader,  
> or something) mixed in with the rest - because there is no rest of  
> them any more.
>
> The other thing I've been wondering about is that if there were  
> enough demand for it we could try adding "improved" groovy support.  
> E.g. throw your groovy actions under WEB-INF and we'll use groovy's  
> built in stuff to do auto-reloading etc.
>
> My 2c.
>
> -t
>
>
> On Jan 24, 2008, at 9:37 AM, Gregg Bolinger wrote:
>
>  
>> Seems like Remi and I had a discussion about this a few weeks ago.  
>> I've
>> been kind of waiting for someone else to give it a go before I dove  
>> in.
>> I'd suspect Tim's crazy admin action bean is a rare case.  The only
>> thing I see that would make using Groovy over straight Java a non-
>> issue
>> is that a good ActionBean isn't that complicated and getters/
>> setters can
>> be generated by the IDE.  So can anyone make a *real* case for why
>> Groovy would be worthwhile in this case?
>>
>> Don't get me wrong. I love gant and I like using Groovy for quick and
>> dirty prototypes and like Remi enjoy it more than shell scripts.  But
>> outside of Grails considering everything else Grails does, I'm not
>> sure.  Unless we moved the Stripes annotations into something more  
>> like
>> Grails constraints I just don't see the pay off.
>>
>> Gregg
>>
>> Freddy D. wrote:
>>    
>>> Thanks for the info. Like you, I tried Groovy pre-1.5 support and
>>> really liked what I saw. Especially being able to use closures in
>>> mappings and iterations, which I love (and why I wrote
>>> FunctionalJ to tide me over until something better would become
>>> available).
>>>
>>> I always thought Groovy+Stripes would be a very nice
>>> combination. So thanks for confirming that now with the 1.5
>>> support, it is indeed a workable solution.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Freddy
>>>
>>>
>>>      
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