[GROOVY-3337] ObjectGraphBuilder should support multiple associations for the same class

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.5.7
• Fix Version/s: 1.6.3, 1.7-beta-1
• Flags: Patch
• Assignee: Andres Almiray
• Reporter: David Donn
• Created: 03/Feb/09 22:17
• Updated: 05/Apr/15 14:44
• Resolved: 10/May/09 20:53

Description

It doesn't seem possible to do something like this:

class Company {
String name
Employee md
Employee cio
}

class Employee {
String name
}

def builder = new ObjectGraphBuilder()

def company = builder.company( name: 'ACME' )

{ md( name: 'Billy Bob') cio( name: 'Joey Johns') }

}

Where the same class is associated mutliple times by different fields.

Why not use the field name as the builder nodes and have ObjectGraphBuilder determine the class using reflection?
I have attached a patch that does this. Unfortunately I had trouble building groovy-core so I wasn't able to run the ObjectGraphBuilder or add extra tests.

Anyway, I just wanted to see if anyone thought this was a good idea, then maybe I can finish it off.

This patch slightly changes the meaning of the classNameResolver - it would only apply to "root" classes. Maybe it should be renamed and the docs updated.