[GROOVY-186] Runtime addition or overriding of methods

• Type: Wish
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.0-beta-5
• Assignee: Guillaume Sauthier
• Reporter: Troy Heninger
• Created: 31/Jan/04 00:05
• Updated: 30/Apr/04 05:39
• Resolved: 30/Apr/04 05:39

Description

I would really like the ability to easily override or add methods to classes not written by me and for which I don't have the source, at runtime. I'd even like the ability to do this for java.* classes if possible. And would it be possible to do this for classes declared final? Since Groovy uses a MetaClass for all objects, Java or Groovy, this seems like it should be easy.

If this is a duplicate please close this one or add my comments to it, if it helps.