GitHub user mortensoby opened a pull request: https://github.com/apache/groovy/pull/465
null-safe and empty-safe number parsing of xml The following results in af NumberFormatException: xml.'**'.find{it.name()` == 'someBigDecimal'}.toBigDecimal() if the element content is empty which means the following construct is necessary: ``` xml.'**'.find{it.name() == 'someEmptyBigDecimal' && it.text()}?.toBigDecimal() ``` This pull request ensures that null is returned if the element is empty for the following methods: ``` toBigInteger() toBigDecimal() toDouble() toBigLong() toBigFloat() ``` You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running: $ git pull https://github.com/mortensoby/groovy master Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at: https://github.com/apache/groovy/pull/465.patch To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #465 ---- commit 9cafd9d44fbcdb71b574664dadf87be1aa4ec06b Author: Morten Holm Søby <m...@nineconsult.dk> Date: 2016-11-25T14:39:46Z null-safe and empty-safe number parsing of xml ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---