I've opened an issue for this problem. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-8390
I've also tried to debug it, but I was unable to find a solution. Any help would be appreciated. Cheers, Paolo On Fri, Nov 24, 2017 at 9:16 PM, Paolo Di Tommaso <paolo.ditomm...@gmail.com > wrote: > It was my understanding that a ConfigObject dot notation is equivalent to > curly brackets. > > However the following snippets create two different objects > > > def first = ''' > alpha.container = 'foo' > > profiles { > beta.container='x/y' > delta.container='1/2' > alpha.container='bar' > } > ''' > > def second = ''' > alpha.container = 'foo' > > profiles.beta.container='x/y' > profiles.delta.container='1/2' > profiles.alpha.container='bar' > ''' > > assert new ConfigSlurper().parse(first) == new > ConfigSlurper().parse(second) // fail > > > > in particular printing the first ConfigObject it return the following > string: > > > alpha.container='bar' > profiles { > beta.container='x/y' > delta.container='1/2' > } > > > that doesn't make much sense. Is this a bug or I'm missing something? > > > > Cheers, > Paolo > > >