[GROOVY-5151] Provide methods to specify owner, delegate and thisObject of closures

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.5, 2.0-beta-2
• Assignee: Cédric Champeau
• Reporter: Cédric Champeau
• Created: 29/Nov/11 05:23
• Updated: 24/Dec/11 03:08
• Resolved: 09/Dec/11 03:38

Description

See the discussion at http://groovy.329449.n5.nabble.com/Serializing-Closures-td5015137.html

Closures are serializable, but the "owner", "delegate" and "thisObject" objects may not be serializable. The idea is to provide a method which returns a copy of the current closure with the above fields nullified.

A "rehydrate" method should be provided to offer the inverse operation.