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Leonard Brünings commented on GROOVY-10936:
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Thanks for the fix Eric
> Patterns conditionally created using pattern operator ~ are cast to
> String/GString
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>
> Key: GROOVY-10936
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-10936
> Project: Groovy
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 4.0.7, 4.0.8, 4.0.9
> Reporter: Pavlo Shevchenko
> Assignee: Eric Milles
> Priority: Major
> Fix For: 3.0.20, 5.0.0-alpha-4, 4.0.17
>
>
> *Summary*
> If the value of the Pattern object is based on some argument evaluated at
> runtime, then such objects will be created as String/GString instead of
> Pattern.
> This used to work in 4.0.6, but started failing in 4.0.7.
> *Reproducer*
> {code:java}
> class Reproducer {
> static void main(String... args) {
> def random = new Random()
> def staticPatternSlashy = ~/some static pattern \w+/
> def staticPatternGString = ~"some static pattern \\w+"
> def dynamicPatternSlashy = random.nextInt() % 2 == 0 ? ~/pattern one
> \w+/ : ~/pattern two \w+/
> def dynamicPatternGString = random.nextInt() % 2 == 0 ? ~"pattern one
> \\w+" : ~"pattern two \\w+"
> assert staticPatternSlashy instanceof Pattern // succeeds
> assert staticPatternGString instanceof Pattern // succeeds
> assert dynamicPatternSlashy instanceof Pattern // fails
> assert dynamicPatternGString instanceof Pattern // fails
> }
> } {code}
> *Workaround*
> Explicitly declaring the variable as Pattern does not work and fails at
> runtime as it will attempt to cast the String to Pattern. Creating the
> pattern using Pattern.compile() works, but is a nasty refactoring and
> eliminates the benefits of the operator.
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