Groovy 2 Cookbook

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, user input, and Twitter handles are shown as follows: "It also ensures that the reader object gets closed after the method returns."

A block of code is set as follows:

class Person {
  String name
  String lastName
}

p = new Person()

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

groovy -e "throw new Exception()"
Caught: java.lang.Exception
java.lang.Exception
        at script_from_command_line.run(script_from_command_line:1)

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