I'm new to Groovy (lots of Java experience but almost no Groovy experience) and
maybe there is something very basic I am missing here, but I am running into
the following issue in a Grails app (but I think it's a not understanding
Groovy issue). I'm not sure I can break it down any further than I already
have, so I am kind of stumped about what I am doing wrong here.
In case you know Grails and want some detail on where this code is happening,
I'm working on a pre-existing Grails app that calls a service from the
BootStrap.groovy during application startup. The code I'm having a problem
with is within the service class.
Here's the code snippet:
System.out.println("is icf null? " + (icf == null));
System.out.println("is icf not null? " + (icf != null));
System.out.println("what is icf? " + icf);
And here's the output:
is icf null? false
is icf not null? true
what is icf? Null
If I try to call a method on icf, I get a NullPointerException. However,
earlier in the code icf is created (currently it is created Java-style rather
than using def, as in ICF icf = new ICF()) and the code tries to set several
property values within icf (e.g. icf.code = suchandsuch) and none of that
throws any errors.
What might be happening here?
Thanks.
