For Groovy 4, we might want to improve support for "real" named params which means that we could have support for final class fields and type safety for the Map shortcut example, but I agree the @Newify example is higher priority until we progress such Groovy 4 work in earnest.
On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 11:20 AM MG <mg...@arscreat.com> wrote: > In my personal opinion we should fade out the older solutions that do not > support final class fields, have no type safety, etc, so I would not push > Jetbrains to put effort into supporting this. > If one wants instance creation without new in Groovy, I expect he > typically will put @Newify(pattern = /[A-Z].*/) into his Groovy > configscript, to have it active in every class, so it would not matter that > the older, more restricted version works without any annotation. > > Cheers, > mg > > > On 09/03/2020 01:36, Paul King wrote: > > The named argument shorthand, which doesn't require @Newify, displays > errors too (currently won't work with your Foo example since it relies on > a no-arg constructor and setters): > > [image: image.png] > > Cheers, Paul. > > > On Mon, Mar 9, 2020 at 10:00 AM MG <mg...@arscreat.com> wrote: > >> Hi Groovy users, >> >> the current IntelliJ IDEA (2019.3.3, built on February 11th 2020) still >> does not support all Groovy features introduced with Groovy 2.5.4 in mid >> 2018 (http://groovy-lang.org/releasenotes/groovy-2.5.html). I have >> created an umbrella issue for this back then >> (https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-193168), but it seems to >> never have been fleshed out / worked on. >> >> To help remedy this, I am planning to create indiviudal issues, starting >> with support for creating class instances without requiring the use of >> the new keyword: >> https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-234806. >> >> Groovy is all about being as concise and elegant as possible, so it did >> away with the needless Java semicolon at the end of lines, supports >> string interpolation and multiline strings, etc. Creating class >> instances / calling constructors without a new keyword is something that >> has existed in Python and Kotlin forever, so it is high time IntelliJ >> IDEA supported this Groovy feature. >> >> Please vote for these issues as I report them G-) >> Cheers, >> mg >> >> >> >> >> >
