I know curly brackets are not used to initialize array in Groovy but I have noticed one peculiar thing.
Why groovy doesn't give compiler error when I initialize an array like this.
String emailAddress = "[email protected]";
String [] var = {emailAddress};
println var[0];
Output: com.test.examples.GroovyTest$_main_closure1@12e4860e
When I try to declare like this I get error:
String [] var = {"a","b"};
Can anybody explain this?
When you do:
String [] var = {emailAddress};
That creates a Closure that returns a String emailAddress, and then crams that closure into a String array (by calling toString() on it), as that's what you told it to do ;-)
So var equals ['ConsoleScript0$_run_closure1@60fd82c1'] (or similar, depending on where you're running things)
When you do:
String [] var = {"a","b"};
The right-hand side is not a valid Closure, so the script fails to parse.
What you want is:
String[] var = ['a', 'b']
Or:
String[] var = [emailAddress]
