[GROOVY-8510] Safe number parsing methods for more convenient XML parsing

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 3.0.0-alpha-2, 2.5.0-rc-1, 2.6.0-alpha-4
• Component/s: XML Processing
• Assignee: Daniel Sun
• Reporter: Daniel Sun
• Created: 14/Mar/18 15:28
• Updated: 28/May/18 20:41
• Resolved: 14/Mar/18 15:28

Description

If the element content is empty or null the methods will return null

This is now possible:

xml.'**'.find { it.name() == 'someEmptyBigDecimal' }?.toBigDecimal()