Hi Paul
If you provide just a setter for listOfSamples, instead of a map
constructor that handles all properties, then you can allow Groovy's
dynamic map construction process to handle all the other properties.
Something like this...
class Sample {
Integer age
String name
}
class SampleCollection {
String name
List<Sample> listOfSamples = []
def setListOfSamples (List samples) {
samples.each { sample ->
listOfSamples << (sample as Sample)
}
}
}
def m = [name:'Collection1',listOfSamples:[
[age:10,name:'Anna'],[age:12,name:'Berta'] ]]
def c = m as SampleCollection // or c = new SampleCollection(m)
assert c.class == SampleCollection // passes
assert c.listOfSamples[0].class == Sample // NOW PASSES
assert c.listOfSamples[0].name.class == String
assert c.listOfSamples[0].age.class == Integer
On 10 November 2017 at 11:04, paul <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm doing a little YAML-parsing where I have CustomObjects having Lists of
> other CustomObjects as properties, but the default map constructor does not
> seem to work for these lists.
> example:
>
> class Sample {
> Integer age
> String name
> }
> class SampleCollection {
> String name
> List<Sample> listOfSamples
> }
> def m = [name:'Collection1',listOfSamples:[
> [age:10,name:'Anna'],[age:12,name:'Berta']
> ]]
> def c = m as SampleCollection // or c = new SampleCollection(m)
> assert c.class == SampleCollection // passes
> assert c.listOfSamples[0].class == Sample // fails
>
> First solution I've come up with is adding a custom constructor to
> SampleCollection like this:
>
> SampleCollection(Map map) {
> name = map.name
> // listOfSamples = map.listOfSamples // cast not working
> listOfSamples = []
> map.listOfSamples.each{ sample ->
> listOfSamples << (sample as Sample)
> }
> }
>
> This works, but seems rather inefficient, as
> a) I have to loop through each list with potentially many items and
> b) SampleCollection has some more simple properties like 'name', which I
> don't want to add all manually. Is there a way to use the default for these
> simple properties?
>
>
> regards
> Paul
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