Wow, i just wrote that exact code basically... and started responding to
your email, but there were various drawbacks to this approach as I don't
want to have to define handling of every property by name... Then... it
hit me...
def v = '1..10'
assert new GroovyShell().parse(v).run() == [1,2,3,4,5]
It works!!!
Something about the Eval works just a little bit differently than
GroovyShell i guess. Perhaps Dierk can explain.
Last question, how expensive is this invocation of groovyshell and parse
and all that (resources wise)? So-so?
Gerald R. Wiltse
jerrywil...@gmail.com
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:48 AM, Guillaume Laforge <glafo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> If you know it's a range when parsing that string, you can do this, with
> the toInteger() method:
>
> def rangeString = "123..455"
> def (String min, String max) = rangeString.tokenize("..")
> def range = min.toInteger()..max.toInteger()
>
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 7:26 AM, Gerald Wiltse <jerrywil...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I don't see how that works in my case, maybe i'm missing something.
>>
>> I will clarify:
>>
>> I define a variable in web to represent the range: 14502..14520
>>
>> The web converts this to a string, and passes it into my code.
>>
>> My code then has to receive this string, and then construct a list from
>> it.
>>
>> I could do:
>>
>> String rangeString = passedInVar
>> (String min, String max) = rangeString.tokenize("..")
>> Range range = min..max
>>
>> But i was hoping for a universal "caster" loop which can detect and cast
>> the common types from strings:
>> Integers, lists, ranges, maps, booleans..
>>
>> 12345
>> ["this", "is", "Sample", "List"]
>> 14502..14520
>> ["key":"value","for":"maps"]
>> true
>>
>> I think eval works for all but ranges.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Gerald R. Wiltse
>> jerrywil...@gmail.com
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:15 AM, Guillaume Laforge <glafo...@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> You can just replace the bounds with variables.
>>>
>>> def a = 1
>>> def b = 10
>>> def r = a..b
>>>
>>> Isn't that what you're looking for?
>>>
>>> Guillaume
>>>
>>>
>>> Le mercredi 20 avril 2016, Gerald Wiltse <jerrywil...@gmail.com> a
>>> écrit :
>>>
>>>> I can find no examples of different ways to create a range. There's a
>>>> plethora of examples on what you can do when you start by creating a range
>>>> like so: "1..10"
>>>>
>>>> But, how does one create a range when the min and max values are stored
>>>> in variables? There's no range constructor. I see that it's a form of a
>>>> list, but I see no helper methods for dynamically creating ranges given a
>>>> min and max value.
>>>>
>>>> I even tried to get really fancy, but this evaluates to a string.
>>>>
>>>> def v = "10..15"
>>>> assert Eval.x(v, "return x").getClass().name ==
>>>> "java.lang.String"
>>>>
>>>> My use case is this. I populate a bunch of form fields with variable
>>>> definitions... but they all get passed to my code as strings. But I want to
>>>> pass port ranges and lists and maps. So, the Eval() method is exactly what
>>>> I needed.. it just isn't working for ranges.
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Jerry
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Gerald R. Wiltse
>>>> jerrywil...@gmail.com
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Guillaume Laforge
>>> Apache Groovy committer & PMC Vice-President
>>> Product Ninja & Advocate at Restlet <http://restlet.com>
>>>
>>> Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/
>>> Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+
>>> <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts>
>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Guillaume Laforge
> Apache Groovy committer & PMC Vice-President
> Product Ninja & Advocate at Restlet <http://restlet.com>
>
> Blog: http://glaforge.appspot.com/
> Social: @glaforge <http://twitter.com/glaforge> / Google+
> <https://plus.google.com/u/0/114130972232398734985/posts>
>
