How to pass a property collection to Gradle - groovy

I would like to use the properties injection of command line Gradle to pass it an array, is this possible?
Something like this:
gradle build -PmyProp=['value1','value2','value3']
And access it like usual:
if(project.hasProperty('myProp')) {
for ( prop in myProp ) {
...
}
}
Is this possible?

You cannot pass array as value of a property. However you can accept a comma separated string as value and split inside your gradle file.
if (project.hasProperty('myProp')) {
project.properties['myProp'].split(',').each {
println it
}
}
Run as gradle build -PmyProp=value1,value2,value3

-Pmyprop=value always gives a String value. You'd have to parse that String and turn it into a collection. Typically it's better to model common sets of arguments in the build script (e.g. by having a separate task per set of arguments).

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How in operator works in Groovy?

I want to check for multiple string comparison in groovy.
For example:
if (cityName in ('AHD','BLR','DEL'))
{
}
But, using this way, it is giving syntax error.
To define in-place collection use [] instead of ():
if (cityName in ['AHD','BLR','DEL']) {
}
Anyway, in is used correctly.

Invoking a functions based on string name in java

I need a logic to replace the following code.
void invokeMethod(String action){
if ("echo".equals(action)) {
//call echo
echo();
}
else if ("dump".equals(action)) {
// call dump
dump();
}
... goes on
}
switch case with string parameter won't work in java 1.6.
Can I do it a better way ?
I used a java hashmap with action as key and random integer as value. Whenever perticular action is asked to invoke, fetch the integer from the hashmap and use switch case now (In above problem, string comparison was very operation, replaced the same with integers).

How to access a Gradle configurations object correctly

First off, this is my first foray into Gradle/Groovy (using Gradle 1.10). I'm setting up a multi-project environment where I'm creating a jar artifact in one project and then want to define an Exec task, in another project, which depends on the created jar. I'm setting it up something like this:
// This is from the jar building project
jar {
...
}
configurations {
loaderJar
}
dependencies {
loaderJar files(jar.archivePath)
...
}
// From the project which consumes the built jar
configurations {
loaderJar
}
dependencies {
loaderJar project(path: ":gfxd-demo-loader", configuration: "loaderJar")
}
// This is my test task
task foo << {
configurations.loaderJar.each { println it }
println configurations.loaderJar.collect { it }[0]
// The following line breaks!!!
println configurations.loaderJar[0]
}
When executing the foo task it fails with:
> Could not find method getAt() for arguments [0] on configuration ':loaderJar'.
In my foo task I'm just testing to see how to access the jar. So the question is, why does the very last println fail? if a Configuration object is a Collection/Iterable then surely I should be able to index into it?
Configuration is-a java.util.Iterable, but not a java.util.Collection. As can be seen in the Groovy GDK docs, the getAt method (which corresponds to the [] operator) is defined on Collection, but not on Iterable. Hence, you can't index into a Configuration.

How do I print a Groovy stack trace?

How do I print a Groovy stack trace? The Java method, Thread.currentThread().getStackTrace() produces a huge stack trace, including a lot of the Groovy internals. I'm seeing a function called twice from a StreamingMarkupBuilder that looks like it should only be called once and I would like to see why Groovy thinks it should be calling it twice.
Solution:
org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.StackTraceUtils.sanitize(new Exception()).printStackTrace()
Original answer:
A Google search returns the following information:
Apparently, there is a method in org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.StackTraceUtils called printSanitizedStackTrace. There isn't much documentation for the method, though there is a method called sanitize which is described as
remove all apparently groovy-internal
trace entries from the exception
instance This modifies the original
instance and returns it, it does not
clone
So I would try org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.StackTraceUtils.printSanitizedStackTrace(Throwable t) (it is static)
and see if that works for you.
I found this questions when searching for "spock print full stack trace".
My unit tests are written in Groovy, using the Spock testing framework and they're run in the context of a Gradle build.
The fix for me was as simple as adding exceptionFormat = 'full' to my Gradle test task specification:
test {
testLogging {
exceptionFormat = 'full'
}
}
I have designed this simple code for stack trace printing, based on artificial simulation of a NullPointerException.
This code produces the same output in both modes: from a Jenkinsfile (Pipeline) and from a normal .groovy script in a command line.
def getStackTrace() {
try {
null.class.toString() // simulate NPE
} catch (NullPointerException e) {
return e.getStackTrace()
}
return null
}
def printStackTrace() {
def stackTraceStr = ""
def callingFuncFound = false
for (StackTraceElement ste : getStackTrace()) {
if (callingFuncFound) {
stackTraceStr += ste.toString() + '\n'
}
if (!callingFuncFound && ste.toString().startsWith(this.class.name + '.printStackTrace(')) {
callingFuncFound = true
}
}
println(stackTraceStr)
}
Some explanations:
The output is concatenated into a single string to avoid being mixed with "[Pipeline] echo" message prefix of Jenkins Pipeline's println()).
The number of "unnecessary" upper stack trace elements related to the NPE is different in Jenkinsfile and in a normal command line. This is why I calculate callingFuncFound and don't use just something like e.getStackTrace()[2..-1] to skip them.

Grails: How to make everything I create Upper Case?

I am currently using CSS to change everything I write to upperCase when I create an entry, but that is not enough. When I save things, the text shown in the text fields is upper case, but the real value that Grails stores stays in lower case.
I am assuming I'd need to change something in the controller or anything.
Maybe transforming the $fieldValue CSS could work??
Any ideas would help!
Thnks!
You could just write setters for your domain object?
class Domain {
String aField
void setAField( String s ){
aField = s?.toUpperCase()
}
}
I think you are asking how to change values on your domain objects to uppercase. If this is not the case please clarify the question.
You have a bunch of options. I would recommend
1) In a service method, before you save, using String.toUpperCase() to modify the appropriate values on the domain object.
or
2) You can use the underlying Hibernate interceptors by defining a beforeInsert method on your domain object, and doing the toUpperCase there. (see 5.5.1 of the grails documentation)
or
3) You could do this client side. However, if it is a "business requirement" that the values are stored as upper, then I recommend doing the translation server side. It is easier to wrap tests around that code....
Using annotations is cleanest approach
import org.grails.databinding.BindingFormat
class Person {
#BindingFormat('UPPERCASE')
String someUpperCaseString
#BindingFormat('LOWERCASE')
String someLowerCaseString
}
Here is link for it: Grails doc for data binding
You can use Groovy metaprogramming to change the setter for all domain class String-typed properties without actually writing a custom setter for each property.
To do this, add something like the following to the init closure of Bootstrap.groovy
def init = { servletContext ->
for (dc in grailsApplication.domainClasses) {
dc.class.metaClass.setProperty = { String name, value ->
def metaProperty = delegate.class.metaClass.getMetaProperty(name)
if (metaProperty) {
// change the property value to uppercase if it's a String property
if (value && metaProperty.type == String) {
value = value.toUpperCase()
}
metaProperty.setProperty(delegate, value)
} else {
throw new MissingPropertyException(name, delegate.class)
}
}
}
}

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