[GROOVY-10338] Enhance records with additional helper methods

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-beta-2
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Paul King
• Created: 01/Nov/21 13:19
• Updated: 03/Feb/22 22:32
• Resolved: 04/Nov/21 00:41

Description

Looking at Scala/Kotlin data/case classes, it would be good to add additional helper methods to records. I am proposing (with suggestions from the mailing list):

• getAt(int i) which returns the i'th component
• toList() which returns the components as a List
• toMap() which returns the components as a Map
• components() which returns the components as a typed tuple (for records with up to currently 16 components)