Using Groovy with Boost

Boost is a framework for working with Java. This page describes how to use the IoC part of Boost called Spider with Groovy.

Spider has a very interface oriented view of the world. If you are into Interface oriented design (e.g. Ken Pugh's book) and use fine-grained interfaces, you will feel right at home. So first, let's create a Java interface:

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package foo

import au.net.netstorm.boost.spider.ioc.BoostWeb
import au.net.netstorm.boost.spider.api.entry.DefaultEntrySpiderMain

def entrymain = new DefaultEntrySpiderMain(BoostWeb)
entrymain.gomain(PleaseDontGo)

Here, BoostWeb provides some nice defaults for us to use. Running this gives:

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We can also override the Web. For instance, we can supply our own web:

package foo 

import au.net.netstorm.boost.spider.api.config.web.Web
import au.net.netstorm.boost.spider.api.config.bindingswire.BinderWire

class TangledWeb implements Web {
    @PackageScope BinderWire binderwire
    void web() {
        binderwire.bindref(MeTwo).to({ println 'Reporting stuff2' } as MeTwo).to(MeTwo)
    }
}

Which tells the IoC framework to use the supplied closure whenever it needs to inject a MeTwo implementation. Note again the use of the PackageScope AST macro to override Groovy's default property behavior. With this in place, our main script becomes:

def entrymain = new DefaultEntrySpiderMain(BoostWeb, TangledWeb)
entrymain.gomain(PleaseDontGo)

And the output will be:

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