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Since Groovy allows you to use Strings as property names this in turns allows you to dynamically create method and property names at runtime. For example in
The Basics
To create a method with a dynamic name simply use Groovy's feature of reference property names as strings. You can combine this with Groovy's string interpolation (Gstrings) to create method and property names on the fly:
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class Person {
String name = "Fred"
}
def methodName = "Bob"
Person.metaClass."changeNameTo${methodName}" = {-> delegate.name = "Bob" }
def p = new Person()
assert "Fred" == p.name
p.changeNameToBob()
assert "Bob" == p.name
The same concept can be applied to static methods and properties.
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A more elaborate example
In Grails we have a concept of dynamic codecs, classes that can encode and decode data.
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