[GROOVY-9504] Add support for Path to slurper classes

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 4.0.0-alpha-1, 3.0.4
• Component/s: groovy-yaml, JSON, XML Processing
• Assignee: Daniel Sun
• Reporter: paolo di tommaso
• Created: 12/Apr/20 13:16
• Updated: 22/May/20 04:03
• Resolved: 12/Apr/20 17:55

Description

The classes `JsonSlurper`, `YamlSlurper` and `XmlSlurper` allow the parsing of the content of a file object specified as `File` object, however, it's missing a `parse` method taking the [Path|https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/nio/file/Paths.html] interface as a argument. 

 

As a workaround, it's possible to convert a `File` to a `Path` using the `toPath()` method however this does not fully support the new API features, notably the ability to reference and therefore access foreign files e.g. non-local files such as in-memory, S3, etc.