DSL with groovy -> passing values to metaClass methods - groovy

I'm trying to write a mini DSL for some specific task. For this purpose I've been trying to solve a problem like this below (without using parantheses):
give me 5 like romanLetter
give me 5 like word
where the first line would return "V" and the second "five"
My definitions for the first part give me 5 look like this
def give = { clos -> clos() }
def me = { clos -> [:].withDefault { it
println it}
}
and then give me 5 prints 5
The problem is how to add more metaclass methods on the right. E.g.
give me 5 like romanLetter -> prints V OR
give me 5 like word -> prints five
my intuition is that I define like as
Object.metaClass.like = {orth -> if (orth.equals("roman")){ println "V"}
else {println "five"} }
this metaClass method like works only if there is a returned value from the left to be applied to, right? I tried adding a return statement in all of the closures which are on the left side but I always receive
groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: like
for class: com.ontotext.paces.rules.FERulesScriptTest ...
do you have an idea how shall I do?
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Here is the application of what I'm asking for.
I want to make a rule as follows
add FEATURE of X opts A,B,C named Y
where add is a closure, of, opts and named are MetaClass methods (at least that's how i imagine it), X, A, B, C, Y are parameters most probably strings and FEATURE is either a MetaClass property, or a closure without arguments or a closure with arguments.
If FEATURE does not take arguments then it is enough that add takes FEATURE as argument and returns a value on which
Object.metaClass.of will be executed with parameter X
Object.metaClass.opts will be executed on the returned by OF value with parameters A, B, C
Object.metaClass.named will be executed on the returned by opts value with parameter Y
each one of these metaclass methods sets its parameter as a value in a map, which is passed to a JAVA method when named is called.
I'm not sure this is the best solution for such a problem, but it seems to me such for the moment. The problem is if FEATURE is not a property itself but a closure which takes argument (e.g. feature1 ARG1). Then
add feature1 ARG1 of X opts A,B,C named Y
and this is the case which I'm stuck with. add feature1 ARG1 is the give me 5 part and I'm trying to add the rest to it.
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EXAMPLES:
I need to have both of the following working:
add contextFeature "text" of 1,2,3 opts "upperCase" named "TO_UPPER"
add length named "LENGTH"
where in the first case by parsing the rule, whenever each metaclass method of, opts, named is called I fill in the corresponding value in the following map:
params = [feature: "text",
of: 1,2,3,
opts: "upperCase",
named: "TO_UPPER"]
ones this map is filled in, which happens when named is parsed, I call a java method
setFeature(params.of, params.named, params.opts, params.feature)
In the second case length is predefined as length = "length", params values will be only
params = [feature : length,
of: null,
opts: null,
named: "LENGTH"]
and since of is null another java method will be called which is addSurfaceFeature(params.feature, params.named). The second case is more or less streight forward, but the first one is the one I can't manage.
Thanks in advance! Iv

You can do this sort of thing... Does that get you close?
def contextFeature( type ) {
"FEATURE_$type"
}
// Testing
new IvitaParser().parse {
a = add text of 1,2,3 opts "upperCase" named "TO_UPPER"
b = add length named "LENGTH"
c = add contextFeature( "text" ) of 1,2,3 opts "upperCase" named "TO_UPPER"
}
assert a == [feature:'text', of:[1, 2, 3], opts:'upperCase', named:'TO_UPPER']
assert b == [feature:'length', of:null, opts:null, named:'LENGTH']
assert c == [feature:'FEATURE_text', of:[1, 2, 3], opts:'upperCase', named:'TO_UPPER']
// Implementation
class IvitaParser {
Map result
def parse( Closure c ) {
c.delegate = this
c.resolveMethod = Closure.DELEGATE_FIRST
c()
}
def propertyMissing( String name ) {
name
}
def add( String param ) {
result = [ feature:param, of:null, opts:null, named:null ]
this
}
def of( Object... values ) {
result.of = values
this
}
def named( String name ) {
result.named = name
result
}
def opts( String opt ) {
result.opts = opt
this
}
}
You can even get rid of the quotes on the definition:
a = add text of 1,2,3 opts upperCase named TO_UPPER
b = add length named LENGTH
As the propertyMissing method just converts unknown properties into a String of their name

Related

sort strings according to the highest

can I combine below closures into one or do this in a more functional and elegant way in groovy. I am using the sortMethod in some other places( for testing purpose) too.
for eg : countAndMap should take
["a b c a a c" , "b b c"] and return[x1 : [a:3,c:2,b:1] , x2 : [b:2,c:1]]
def countAndMap(List<String> stringList) {
stringList.withIndex().collect { String s, Integer i -> [(num.call(i)): count.call(s)] }
}
Closure count = {sortMethod.call(it.split().countBy {it}) }
Closure sortMethod = { it.sort { x, y -> x.value <=> y.value } }
Closure num = { "x ${it + 1}".toString()}
there are no errors but I wonder if it's possible to do it in a more functional way
I am not sure what you mean with "more functional", but you could use a fold operation (called inject in groovy):
list = ["a b c a a c" , "b b c"]
def createSortedHistogram(String toCount) {
toCount
.split() // Create list of words
.inject([:]){ acc, word -> acc[word] = 1 + (acc[word] ?: 0);acc} // create histogram
.sort{-it.value} // sort histogram map by value desc
}
def countAndMap(List<String> list) {
list.withIndex().collectEntries{ sublist, i -> ["x ${i+1}": createSortedHistogram(sublist)] }
}
countAndMap(list)
I think the most interesting part is the inject method.
This solution uses the initial value [:] in order to use a map as result. In each iteration the inject operation either adds a new entry with value 1 to the map (if the word/key does not exist in the map) or increases the value of the word/key if it is already present in the map.
See the inject definition from Collections GroovyDoc.
public Object inject(Object initialValue, Closure closure) - Iterates through the given Collection, passing in the initial value to the 2-arg closure along with the first item. The result is passed back (injected) into the closure along with the second item. The new result is injected back into the closure along with the third item and so on until the entire collection has been used. Also known as foldLeft or reduce in functional parlance.

Groovy: Constructor hash collision

I have the following groovy code:
def script
String credentials_id
String repository_path
String relative_directory
String repository_url
CredentialsWrapper(script, credentials_id, repository_name, repository_group, relative_directory=null) {
this(script, credentials_id, 'git#gitlab.foo.com:' + repository_group +'/' + repository_name + '.git', relative_directory);
}
CredentialsWrapper(script, credentials_id, repository_url, relative_directory=null) {
this.script = script;
this.credentials_id = credentials_id;
this.repository_url = repository_url;
if (null == relative_directory) {
int lastSeparatorIndex = repository_url.lastIndexOf("/");
int indexOfExt = repository_url.indexOf(".git");
this.relative_directory = repository_url.substring(lastSeparatorIndex+1, indexOfExt);
}
}
Jenkins gives me the following:
Unable to compile class com.foo.CredentialsWrapper due to hash collision in constructors # line 30, column 7.
I do not understand why, the constructors are different, they do not have the same number of arguments.
Also, "script" is an instance from "WorkflowScript", but I do not know what I should import to access this class, which would allow me to declare script explicitly instead of using "def"
Any idea ?
When you call the Constructor with four parameters, would you like to call the first or the second one?
If you write an constructor/method with default values, groovy will actually generate two or more versions.
So
Test(String x, String y ="test")
will result in
Test(String x, String y) {...}
and
Test(String x) {new Test(x, "test")}
So your code would like to compile to 4 constructors, but it contains the constructor with the signature
CredentialsWrapper(def, def, def, def)
two times.
If I understand your code correctly, you can omit one or both of the =null. The result will be the same, but you will get only two or three signatures. Then you can choose between both versions by calling calling them with the right parameter count.

Groovy unusual convention

I have seen strange code for many times:
...
private currencyFormat = NumberFormat.currencyInstance
def convert = currencyFormat.&parse
...
By strange I mean this -> .&parse. Why logical AND operator is needed and who else it can be used?
That's a method pointer
convert is now effectively a Closure which delegates to the parse method
Example
It's defined here without an example, and mrhaki did a post about it here.
And as an example showing it handles overloading, consider a class with 2 static methods:
class Test {
static void printSomething( String thing ) {
println "A:$thing"
}
static void printSomething( String thing, String thing2 ) {
println "B:$thing$thing2"
}
}
We can get a reference to the printSomething methods:
def ref = Test.&printSomething
And then we can pass it to an each call on a list of single items:
// prints A:a and A:b
[ 'a', 'b' ].each ref
Or we can pass it two items and it will pick the correct overloaded method to call:
// prints B:ab and B:cd
[ [ 'a', 'b' ], [ 'c', 'd' ] ].each ref
It's not a bit manipulation operator. The ampersand was probably chosen because that's what C's address operator uses. The idea is that you can pass around references to a method on a specific instance.
Say you have some logic like:
def stuff = null
if (condition) {
stuff = foo.doThis(a, b, c)
} else {
stuff = bar.doOther(a, b, c)
}
You can rewrite that with a method pointer like this:
def myMethod = condition ? foo.&doThis : bar.&doOther
def stuff = myMethod(a, b, c)
It doesn't mean and. It's special syntax to reuse a method as a closure. Now you can use convert in places where you can pass a closure, like grep, find or similar methods.

Convert Groovy map implementing an interface back to a map

When using a map of closures to implement an interface in Groovy (as in http://groovy.codehaus.org/Groovy+way+to+implement+interfaces) is there any way to convert the object back to a map after using the as keyword or the asType method to implement the interface?
Based on your use case it would seem that you could just keep a reference to the original Map before converting it into the needed interface.
However, looking at the source code that converts the Map object into the interface (using a Proxy), it looks like you can just re-retrieve the original map by getting the InvocationHandler's delegate.
def i = 1
def m = [ hasNext:{ true }, next:{ i++ } ]
Iterator iter = m as Iterator
def d = java.lang.reflect.Proxy.getInvocationHandler(iter).delegate
assert d.is(m)
Note: This depends on the internals of the Groovy code so use at your own risk:
Interesting question... Short answer, no. Long answer, maybe... Assuming you have something like this:
def i = 1
Iterator iter = [ hasNext:{ true }, next:{ i++ } ] as Iterator
then calling
println iter.take( 3 ).collect()
prints [1,2,3]
Now, you can declare a method to do this:
def mapFromInterface( Object o, Class... clz ) {
// Get a Set of all methods across the array of classes clz
Set methods = clz*.methods.flatten()
// Then, for each of these
methods.collectEntries {
// create a map entry with the name of the method as the key
// and a closure which invokes the method as a value
[ (it.name): { Object... args ->
o.metaClass.pickMethod( it.name, it.parameterTypes ).invoke( o, args )
} ]
}
}
This then allows you to do:
def map = mapFromInterface( iter, Iterator )
And calling:
println map.next()
println map.next()
Will print 4 followed by 5
printing the map with println map gives:
[ remove:ConsoleScript43$_mapFromInterface_closure3_closure4#57752bea,
hasNext:ConsoleScript43$_mapFromInterface_closure3_closure4#4d963c81,
next:ConsoleScript43$_mapFromInterface_closure3_closure4#425e60f2 ]
However, as this is a map, any class which contains multiple methods with the same name and different arguments will fail. I am also not sure how wise it is to do this in the first case...
What is your use-case out of interest?

EachWithIndex groovy statement

I am new to groovy and I've been facing some issues understanding the each{} and eachwithindex{} statements in groovy.
Are each and eachWithIndex actually methods? If so what are the arguments that they take?
In the groovy documentation there is this certain example:
def numbers = [ 5, 7, 9, 12 ]
numbers.eachWithIndex{ num, idx -> println "$idx: $num" } //prints each index and number
Well, I see that numbers is an array. What are num and idx in the above statement? What does the -> operator do?
I do know that $idx and $num prints the value, but how is it that idx and num are automatically being associated with the index and contents of the array? What is the logic behind this? Please help.
These are plain methods but they follow quite a specific pattern - they take a Closure as their last argument. A Closure is a piece of functionality that you can pass around and call when applicable.
For example, method eachWithIndex might look like this (roughly):
void eachWithIndex(Closure operation) {
for (int i = 0; this.hasNext(); i++) {
operation(this.next(), i); // Here closure passed as parameter is being called
}
}
This approach allows one to build generic algorithms (like iteration over items) and change the concrete processing logic at runtime by passing different closures.
Regarding the parameters part, as you see in the example above we call the closure (operation) with two parameters - the current element and current index. This means that the eachWithIndex method expects to receive not just any closure but one which would accept these two parameters. From a syntax prospective one defines the parameters during closure definition like this:
{ elem, index ->
// logic
}
So -> is used to separate arguments part of closure definition from its logic. When a closure takes only one argument, its parameter definition can be omitted and then the parameter will be accessible within the closure's scope with the name it (implicit name for the first argument). For example:
[1,2,3].each {
println it
}
It could be rewritten like this:
[1,2,3].each({ elem ->
println elem
})
As you see the Groovy language adds some syntax sugar to make such constructions look prettier.
each and eachWithIndex are, amongst many others, taking so called Closure as an argument. The closure is just a piece of Groovy code wrapped in {} braces. In the code with array:
def numbers = [ 5, 7, 9, 12 ]
numbers.eachWithIndex{ num, idx -> println "$idx: $num" }
there is only one argument (closure, or more precisely: function), please note that in Groovy () braces are sometime optional. num and idx are just an optional aliases for closure (function) arguments, when we need just one argument, this is equivalent (it is implicit name of the first closure argument, very convenient):
def numbers = [ 5, 7, 9, 12 ]
numbers.each {println "$it" }
References:
http://groovy.codehaus.org/Closures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-class_function
Normally, if you are using a functional programing language such as Groovy, you would want to avoid using each and eachWithIndex since they encourage you to modify state within the closure or do things that have side effects.
If possible, you may want to do your operations using other groovy collection methods such as .collect or .inject or findResult etc.
However, to use these for your problem, i.e print the list elements with their index, you will need to use the withIndex method on the original collection which will transform the collection to a collection of pairs of [element, index]
For example,
println(['a', 'b', 'c'].withIndex())
EachWithIndex can be used as follows:
package json
import groovy.json.*
import com.eviware.soapui.support.XmlHolder
def project = testRunner.testCase.testSuite.project
def testCase = testRunner.testCase;
def strArray = new String[200]
//Response for a step you want the json from
def response = context.expand('${Offers#Response#$[\'Data\']}').toString()
def json = new JsonSlurper().parseText(response)
//Value you want to compare with in your array
def offername = project.getPropertyValue("Offername")
log.info(offername)
Boolean flagpresent = false
Boolean flagnotpresent = false
strArray = json.Name
def id = 0;
//To find the offername in the array of offers displayed
strArray.eachWithIndex
{
name, index ->
if("${name}" != offername)
{
flagnotpresent= false;
}
else
{
id = "${index}";
flagpresent = true;
log.info("${index}.${name}")
log.info(id)
}
}

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