Details
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New Feature
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Status: Reopened
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Major
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Resolution: Unresolved
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Patch
Description
It was brought up on the dev mailing list that you could query multiple list values at once, but not multiple Map values:
Message from groovy-dev by Jon Cox
Groovy currently lets you say:
def x = [100,200,300,400] assert x[0] == 100 assert x[2] == 300 assert x[0,2] == [100,300]
You can say:
def y = [moo: 100, cow: 200, egg:300 hen:400] assert y["moo"] == 100 assert y["cow"] == 300
But currently, you cannot slice a Map like this:
assert y["moo","egg"] == [100,300]
This patch adds that functionality, so you can do (from the unit test)
void testMapSlice() { def m = [ a:1, b:2, c:3 ] assert m[ 'a', 'b' ] == [ 1, 2 ] assert m[ 'a', 'c' ] == [ 1, 3 ] assert m[ 'a', 'd', 'c' ] == [ 1, null, 3 ] }
Note that the resultant List contains null for keys that were not found. This (I believe) differs from the way that Perl handles this (I believe they are just skipped in perl), but I think that having the null values gives the developer more information.
And they could be filtered out by doing something like:
m[ 'a', 'd', 'c' ].findAll { it }
Hope it's ok!