Programming Groovy 2 (for Jan S Morrison) by Subramaniam, Venkat -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Programming Groovy 2 Table of Contents What readers are saying about Programming Groovy 2 Foreword to the Second Edition Introduction

What’s Groovy? Why Dynamic Languages? Why Groovy? What’s in This Book? Changes Since This Book’s First Edition Who Is This Book For? Online Resources Acknowledgments

Part 1: Beginning Groovy Chapter 1: Getting Started

1.1 Installing Groovy 1.2 Installing and Managing Groovy Versions 1.3 Test-Drive Using groovysh 1.4 Using groovyConsole 1.5 Running Groovy on the Command Line 1.6 Using an IDE

Chapter 2: Groovy for Java Eyes

2.1 From Java to Groovy 2.2 JavaBeans 2.3 Flexible Initialization and Named Arguments 2.4 Optional Parameters 2.5 Using Multiple Assignments 2.6 Implementing Interfaces 2.7 Groovy Boolean Evaluation 2.8 Operator Overloading 2.9 Support of Java 5 Language Features 2.10 Using Groovy Code-Generation Transformations 2.11 Gotchas

Chapter 3: Dynamic Typing

3.1 Typing in Java 3.2 Dynamic Typing 3.3 Dynamic Typing != Weak Typing 3.4 Design by Capability 3.5 Optional Typing 3.6 Multimethods 3.7 Dynamic: To Be or Not to Be? 3.8 Switching Off Dynamic Typing

Chapter 4: Using Closures

4.1 The Convenience of Closures 4.2 Programming with Closures 4.3 Ways to Use Closures 4.4 Passing Parameters to Closures 4.5 Using Closures for Resource Cleanup 4.6 Closures and Coroutines 4.7 Curried Closure 4.8 Dynamic Closures 4.9 Closure Delegation 4.10 Programming with Tail Recursion 4.11 Improving Performance Using Memoization

Chapter 5: Working with Strings

5.1 Literals and Expressions 5.2 GString Lazy-Evaluation Problem 5.3 Multiline Strings 5.4 String Convenience Methods 5.5 Regular Expressions

Chapter 6: Working with Collections

6.1 Using List 6.2 Iterating Over an ArrayList 6.3 Using Finder Methods 6.4 Other Convenience Methods on List s 6.5 Using the Map Class 6.6 Iterating Over Map 6.7 Other Convenience Methods on Map s

Part 2: Using Groovy Chapter 7: Exploring the GDK

7.1 Using Object Extensions 7.2 Other Extensions 7.3 Custom Methods Using the Extension Modules

Chapter 8: Working with XML

8.1 Parsing XML 8.2 Creating XML

Chapter 9: Working with Databases

9.1 Setting Up the Database 9.2 Connecting to a Database 9.3 Database Select 9.4 Transforming Data to XML 9.5 Using DataSet 9.6 Inserting and Updating 9.7 Accessing Microsoft Excel

Chapter 10: Working with Scripts and Classes

10.1 The Melting Pot of Java and Groovy 10.2 Running Groovy 10.3 Using Groovy Classes from Groovy 10.4 Intermixing Groovy and Java with Joint Compilation 10.5 Creating and Passing Groovy Closures from Java 10.6 Calling Groovy Dynamic Methods from Java 10.7 Using Java Classes from Groovy 10.8 Using Groovy Scripts from Groovy 10.9 Using Groovy Scripts from Java

Part 3: MOPping Groovy Chapter 11: Exploring Metaobject Protocol (MOP)

11.1 Groovy Object 11.2 Querying Methods and Properties 11.3 Dynamically Accessing Objects

Chapter 12: Intercepting Methods Using MOP

12.1 Intercepting Methods Using GroovyInterceptable 12.2 Intercepting Methods Using MetaClass

Chapter 13: MOP Method Injection

13.1 Injecting Methods Using Categories 13.2 Injecting Methods Using ExpandoMetaClass 13.3 Injecting Methods into Specific Instances 13.4 Injecting Methods Using Mixins 13.5 Decorating Classes with Multiple Mixins

Chapter 14: MOP Method Synthesis

14.1 Method Synthesis Using methodMissing 14.2 Method Synthesis Using ExpandoMetaClass 14.3 Synthesizing Methods for Specific Instances

Chapter 15: MOPping Up

15.1 Creating Dynamic Classes with Expando 15.2 Method Delegation: Putting It All Together 15.3 Review of MOP Techniques

Chapter 16: Applying Compile-Time Metaprogramming

16.1 Analyzing Code at Compile Time 16.2 Intercepting Method Calls Using AST Transformations 16.3 Injecting Methods Using AST Transformations

Part 4: Using Metaprogramming Chapter 17: Groovy Builders

17.1 Building XML 17.2 Building JSON 17.3 Building Swing 17.4 Custom Builder Using Metaprogramming 17.5 Using BuilderSupport 17.6 Using FactoryBuilderSupport

Chapter 18: Unit Testing and Mocking

18.1 Code in This Book and Automated Unit Tests 18.2 Unit Testing Java and Groovy Code 18.3 Testing for Exceptions 18.4 Mocking 18.5 Mocking by Overriding 18.6 Mocking Using Categories 18.7 Mocking Using ExpandoMetaClass 18.8 Mocking Using Expando 18.9 Mocking Using Map 18.10 Mocking Using the Groovy Mock Library

Chapter 19: Creating DSLs in Groovy

19.1 Context 19.2 Fluency 19.3 Types of DSLs 19.4 Designing Internal DSLs 19.5 Groovy and DSLs 19.6 Using Command-Chain Fluency 19.7 Closures and DSLs 19.8 Method Interception and DSLs 19.9 The Parentheses Limitation and a Workaround 19.10 Categories and DSLs 19.11 ExpandoMetaClass and DSLs

Appendix 1: Web Resources Appendix 2: Bibliography