Would something like the "pre" and "post" annotation params from MapConstructor work for you?
Cheers, Paul. On Thu, Jan 7, 2016 at 7:55 AM, Schalk Cronjé <[email protected]> wrote: > The following has come up for me in a number of cases. I don't think there > is any support for it today in Groovy (correct me if I'm wrong, please), but > I think it could be a useful addition. > > I like to do some additional intialisation work once the properties have > been populated, > > class Example { > String foo > String bar > > Example( Map props = [:] ) { > // Do some work here to initialise properties from the supplied map > > // Do some other initialisation work, possibly calling a method in order > to > // initialise private field 'something' > } > > private def something > } > > I am a big fan of @TupleConstructor, but it will not work for the above > case. Here, I am thinking that if one could do something like > > @TupleConstructor( init=myInitMethod ) > class Example { > String foo > String bar > > private void myInitMethod() { > // Do more init work in here > } > } > > it would be quite useful. I don't know what the limitations are in order to > implement somethin like this. It's a thought at present... > > -- > Schalk W. Cronjé > Twitter / Ello / Toeter : @ysb33r
