[GROOVY-10353] StaticTypeCheckingSupport#evaluateExpression can provide lightweight evaluation for simple expressions

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-rc-1, 3.0.14
• Assignee: Eric Milles
• Reporter: Eric Milles
• Created: 09/Nov/21 15:57
• Updated: 08/Nov/22 18:57
• Resolved: 12/Nov/21 20:59

Description

StaticTypeCheckingSupport#evaluateExpression is used to evaluate annotation attribute expressions when processing AST transforms or static type checking. When asked to eval a simple string constant, it could return a value directly. This could save on cloning a compiler configuration and spinning up class parse, compile and execute.