On Jun 17, 2008, at 7:36 AM, Ittay Dror wrote:
1. why the use of 'self' variable and not 'this'?
This is an ugly work around of a Groovy deficiency. It causes bugs
regularly, as one forgets to add self.
See: http://groovy.markmail.org/search/?q=from%3Ahans+dockter+meta-
magic#query:from%3Ahans%20dockter%20meta-magic+page:1
+mid:di4xu3sqx6g4mgpx+state:results
An alternative to self would be to use getters and setters. But the
best solution is that Groovy becomes as dynamic as you would expect
from a dynamic language.
- Hans
2. how is dependencyManager set for this class?
It is set via conventionMappings by the Java Plugin. This information
is usually bundled in the class DefaultConventionsToPropertiesMapping.
A convention mapping is a mapping between a property and a closure.
The closure takes the convention object as an argument. The result of
the closure call is used as the value for the property.
- Hans
Thanks,
Ittay
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