Using JSON to configure your scripts
The target of this recipe is to show how to use JSON as a format for configuring a Groovy application.
The requirements for a configuration file format are:
- Simple
- Human-readable
- Cross-platform
- Multi-language support
- Unicode support
JSON fully satisfies the above requirements, thus making a great candidate for configuring an application.
Getting ready
For this recipe, we work on a fictional application that maintains a connection to multiple databases. Each database has a number of parameters to configure such as host, port, credentials, and connection pool initial size.
The following is a sample JSON based configuration file for our application:
{ "configuration":{ "database":[ { "name":"database1", "host":"10.20.30.40", ...Get Groovy 2 Cookbook now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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