Groovy makes it extremely easy to create Java beans with getters, setters, equals, hashCode, and toString:
@groovy.transform.Canonical class Call { def method def args /* // custom impl. reusing the auto-generated one: String toString() { _toString().replaceFirst("^.*?Call", "") }*/ }
You can then do:
// Auto-gen. constr. with positional arguments: def call1 = new Call("someMethod", "someArgs") def call2 = new Call(method: "someMethod", args: "someArgs") assert call1.getMethod() == call1.method assert call2.equals(call1) assert ([call1, call2] as Set).size() == 1 // hashCode
As you might have noticed, you may provide your own implementation of toString and reuse the auto-generated toString by calling _toString()
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References
JavaDoc for @Canonical. You can also use separately any of: @ToString. @EqualsAndHashCode, @TupleConstructor. And may be check also the other available AST annotations such as Immutable and Synchronized and perhaps also groovy.beans‘s Bindable and Vetoable annotations, if you need true Java Beans.
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