Also, thank you so very much for the response!
Gerald R. Wiltse
jerrywil...@gmail.com
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 1:57 AM, Gerald Wiltse <jerrywil...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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>
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Guillaume Laforge
>> Apache Groovy committer & PMC Vice-President
>> Product Ninja & Advocate at Restlet <http://restlet.com>
>>
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