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Groovy for Domain-Specific Languages, Second Edition

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Product type Book
Published in Sep 2015
Publisher
ISBN-13 9781849695404
Pages 386 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Fergal Dearle Fergal Dearle
Profile icon Fergal Dearle

Table of Contents (20) Chapters

Groovy for Domain-specific Languages Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
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Preface
1. Introduction to DSLs and Groovy 2. Groovy Quick Start 3. Essential Groovy DSLs 4. The Groovy Language 5. Groovy Closures 6. Example DSL – GeeTwitter 7. Power Groovy DSL Features 8. AST Transformations 9. Existing Groovy DSLs 10. Building a Builder 11. Implementing a Rules DSL 12. Integrating It All Index

Summary


In this chapter, we covered closures in some depth. We covered all of the important aspects of working with closures. We explored the various ways to call a closure and the means of passing parameters. We saw how we can pass closures as parameters to methods, and how this construct can allow us to appear to add mini DSL syntax to our code.

Closures are the real "power" feature of Groovy, and they form the basis of most of the DSLs that we will develop later in this book. In the next chapter, we will build on this knowledge of closures and take a look at some more of the power features of the Groovy language, including builders and metaprogramming with the ExpandoMetaClass classes.

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