Well, perhaps in that case Eval is too simplistic.
But at this point, I guess your best bet is simply to do a nice
utility method wrapping GroovyShell, just as you did, because there's
no simpler way as of now to do what you're trying to achieve.
On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:32 PM, melix <
cedric.champeau@...> wrote:
>
> Salut Guillaume,
>
> As far as I understand, the Eval class does not take a binding as a
> parameter, and the expression has to be valid Groovy code (that's why I'm
> doing that nasty escapeJava things). I'd like to avoid escaping as much as
> possible.
>
> How would you do that ?
>
>
> glaforge wrote:
>>
>> Have you looked at the Eval class?
>>
http://groovy.codehaus.org/api/groovy/util/Eval.html>>
>> On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:19 PM, melix <
cedric.champeau@...>
>> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm trying to find out if there's any shorter way to evaluate a GString
>>> from
>>> Java code. The string to be evaluated comes from an XML configuration
>>> file
>>> and includes placeholders. My solution seems rather complex for such a
>>> basic
>>> need, and I'm quite sure there are situations where it doesn't work
>>> properly
>>> :
>>>
>>> Binding binding = new Binding();
>>> ...
>>> String evaluatedRegex = "\""+
>>> org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils.escapeJava(regex)+"\"";
>>> evaluatedRegex = new
>>> GroovyShell(binding).evaluate(evaluatedRegex).toString();
>>>
>>> I'd like to be able to write something like :
>>>
>>> String evaluatedRegex = new GString(regex, binding).toString();
>>>
>>> Or (cleaner) :
>>>
>>> String evaluatedRegex = GStringFactory.evaluate(regex, binding);
>>>
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>>
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>>
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