[GROOVY-2839] Provide a find or findAll interface that take a parameter to limit the number of result, similar to the SQL LIMIT keyword

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.6, 1.6-beta-1
• Component/s: syntax
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Mingfai Ma
• Created: 19/May/08 06:27
• Updated: 02/Jan/22 23:57

Description

Currently, the find() method return the first matched result, findAll() returns all matched result. It's suggested to have an interface that take a "limit" parameter to limit the maximum number of return records.

• find() (or findAll()) to take a "limit" integer to decide how many records shall be returned.
  e.g. [1,2,3,4].findAll(2) {it>1}

  == [2,3]

• Groovy 1.x doesn't support "break" in the closure.

Also refer to the discussion at:
http://www.nabble.com/Groovy-syntax--API-enhancement-td16796998.html#a16810531