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lapots
lapots

Reputation: 13395

groovy create closure programmatically

How to create closure programmatically?

I mean not like this

def closure = { println "hello world" }

but more like this

Closure cl = new MethodClosure(this, "method")
....

and then call different methods of the closure to define body and etc.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 783

Answers (1)

Emmanuel Rosa
Emmanuel Rosa

Reputation: 9885

Well, your example is not actually of creating a Closure programmatically because it basically requires parsing and compiling the method's source code into a Closure. The parsing being the problem. Creating a Closure programmatically would look similar to an implementation of a Groovy AST transformation; you'd be manipulating objects which represent low-level language constructs. In pseudo-code... things like IfStatement, ClosureLiteral, MethodCall, etc. Then you'd compile this into objects; essentially by-passing source code parsing. It's kind of like the difference between a String containing a query, and a query builder like Grail's GORM.

However, Groovy does provide an easy way to do what you're looking for in your example using the Eval class. Here's an example:

Closure closure = Eval.me("{ a, b -> a * b }")

assert closure instanceof Closure
assert closure(2, 3) == 6

Upvotes: 1

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