shortcut for creating a Map from a List in groovy?
I've recently came across the need to do exactly that: converting a list into a map. This question was posted before Groovy version 1.7.9 came out, so the method collectEntries
didn't exist yet. It works exactly as the collectMap
method that was proposed:
Map rowToMap(row) { row.columns.collectEntries{[it.name, it.val]}}
If for some reason you are stuck with an older Groovy version, the inject
method can also be used (as proposed here). This is a slightly modified version that takes only one expression inside the closure (just for the sake of character saving!):
Map rowToMap(row) { row.columns.inject([:]) {map, col -> map << [(col.name): col.val]}}
The +
operator can also be used instead of the <<
.
Check out "inject". Real functional programming wonks call it "fold".
columns.inject([:]) { memo, entry -> memo[entry.name] = entry.val return memo}
And, while you're at it, you probably want to define methods as Categories instead of right on the metaClass. That way, you can define it once for all Collections:
class PropertyMapCategory { static Map mapProperty(Collection c, String keyParam, String valParam) { return c.inject([:]) { memo, entry -> memo[entry[keyParam]] = entry[valParam] return memo } }}
Example usage:
use(PropertyMapCategory) { println columns.mapProperty('name', 'val')}