[GROOVY-2470] Add support for coercing strings to enum classes with "as" keyword

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.5.2
• Component/s: groovy-jdk
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Paul King
• Reporter: Mike Dillon
• Created: 06/Jan/08 01:13
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:43
• Resolved: 07/Jan/08 05:52

Description

It would be cool if the "as" keyword could be used to coerce strings to enum values. Since this currently throws an exception, adding this functionality should have no impact on existing code.