Changelog for Groovy 1.7.0-beta-1

Bug

[GROOVY-1643] - Please use parser.getASTFactory().setASTNodeClass(GroovySourceAST.class)
[GROOVY-2271] - Mocks are not used by the delegate of a closure
[GROOVY-2352] - Late and superfluous setting of default values on primitives in subclasses
[GROOVY-2382] - 64K limit on strings -- Caught: java.lang.ClassFormatError: Unknown constant tag 84 in class file test
[GROOVY-2409] - Problems calling private static methods
[GROOVY-2441] - @Deprecated does not have effect in Groovy
[GROOVY-2531] - VerifyError with -- var -- and (var--)--
[GROOVY-2582] - cannot extend java.util.Properties unless getProperty() is overridden
[GROOVY-2583] - "object is not an instance of declaring class" thrown invoking a method on Groovy class, wrapped in a Spring proxy
[GROOVY-2605] - Incorrect parsing
[GROOVY-2621] - Local variable shadows method in closure call, even if method is called with this keyword.
[GROOVY-2657] - Code: def Target = "releases$" returns error on line 0 / column 0
[GROOVY-2665] - static typing issue: adding a string to an Integer
[GROOVY-2687] - VerifyError on incorrect function call
[GROOVY-2746] - Static import of method with default parameter value: MissingMethodException
[GROOVY-2760] - groovyc compiles file, but running it fails with java.lang.VerifyError
[GROOVY-2779] - GPath evaluation problem for html with namespace
[GROOVY-2801] - Override toString in coerced Map fails for interfaces but is ok for concrete classes
[GROOVY-2836] - Misleading MissingMethodException thrown when this() is called inside a constructor
[GROOVY-2849] - A property name in a nested closure interferes with a class property when refering with "this.prop"
[GROOVY-2850] - VerifyError when using increment operator on value
[GROOVY-2887] - Default argument is not used
[GROOVY-2894] - Accessing the implicit parameter of a closure from an inner closure causes a Verify Error
[GROOVY-2918] - problem with default namespace in StreamingSAXBuilder
[GROOVY-2933] - List Parameter in Enum constructor with misbehavior
[GROOVY-2951] - Cannot override instance methodMissing() in ExpandoMetaClass
[GROOVY-2962] - groovyc ant task creates invalid stub
[GROOVY-2969] - parameter annotations for constructors do not show up in runtime environment
[GROOVY-2979] - Cannot launch Groovy on Windows with MSYS
[GROOVY-2982] - GroovyClassLoader parseClass does not provide annotation support
[GROOVY-2983] - wrong line number in 1.6 for getting an property
[GROOVY-3033] - /= assignment operator breaks type system
[GROOVY-3038] - Cannot use "final" modifier on iterator in for (...) loops
[GROOVY-3043] - Command line arguments containing * (asterisk) not passed correctly
[GROOVY-3045] - JVM properties are not correctly used under Linux
[GROOVY-3054] - ClassFormatError: Illegal class name Exception when running a script from a folder with dot in its name
[GROOVY-3057] - SimpleTemplateEngine / TemplateEngine does not close Readers
[GROOVY-3067] - Incorrect line number reporting when exception occurs inside if statement
[GROOVY-3069] - Closure does not have scope precedent over local method
[GROOVY-3079] - groovysh does not run when CLASSPATH includes embeddable/groovy-all.jar
[GROOVY-3084] - Groovy scripts can't access the 'args' property anymore to get the arguments from the command line
[GROOVY-3085] - Performance regression with MarkupBuilder in 1.6 beta 2
[GROOVY-3089] - compile error with covariant bridge method added for already existing method
[GROOVY-3090] - ObjectGraphBuilder does not set itself as delegate on closure strategies
[GROOVY-3097] - Half-exclusive range with int value on left and short value on right always contains a single element
[GROOVY-3102] - NPE with flatten() in case of null elements in the collection
[GROOVY-3109] - StackOverflowError with DOMCategory and missing property
[GROOVY-3120] - closure fails to call missingMethod in delegate
[GROOVY-3121] - Can't define a target not including TYPE for annotation definitions
[GROOVY-3123] - while(true) {} could be optimized
[GROOVY-3124] - for(;;) {} does not behave the same as in Java
[GROOVY-3125] - Some GroovyClassLoader issues around recompile
[GROOVY-3128] - VerifyError for class definition in script edge case
[GROOVY-3129] - Compile-error when implementing a method from a generic interface
[GROOVY-3135] - Incorrect array type created when calling vararg method
[GROOVY-3139] - StubFor: No more calls to 'openConnection' expected at this point. End of demands
[GROOVY-3143] - GroovyDoc: WindowTitle is ingnored
[GROOVY-3155] - Stack overflow during compilation
[GROOVY-3156] - Within a nested closure, "this.method()" works incorrectly if parent closure and outermost class have closures/methods of the same name
[GROOVY-3161] - Wrong initialization order for static fields in enums
[GROOVY-3163] - static foo(Closure) hides super.foo(Bar)
[GROOVY-3165] - Regression in assignment of single character strings to char array element
[GROOVY-3167] - Integers not automatically converted to Bytes
[GROOVY-3168] - groovyc fails silently w/o any error message
[GROOVY-3170] - XmlNodePrinter does not handle attribute namespaces correctly
[GROOVY-3175] - Some generated fields not marked as synthetic
[GROOVY-3181] - Cannot create instances of @Immutable classes that have single Map field
[GROOVY-3182] - Wrong line number on PropertyMissingException
[GROOVY-3184] - ClassExpression's of the form "SomeType.class" have wrong lastColumnNumber
[GROOVY-3187] - ServletBinding lies about what variables it can handle
[GROOVY-3191] - Groovysh cannot be extended
[GROOVY-3198] - Equal instances of an @Immutable class give different values when used as map keys
[GROOVY-3200] - Map coercion should not throw an NPE for non implemented methods from the map
[GROOVY-3203] - ProxyGenerator.instantiateDelegate(Map, Class) behavior should align with ConvertedMap behavior
[GROOVY-3205] - Cannot override toString() in a "mapOfClosures as AClass" implementation
[GROOVY-3207] - XmlNodePointer does not handle namespace prefixes with repeated URNs
[GROOVY-3213] - DGM.unique(Collection, Closure) is broken for Sets
[GROOVY-3214] - Strange Groovy bug for Maps in a Enums method
[GROOVY-3219] - NamespaceBuilder does not create child nodes
[GROOVY-3222] - GroovyCastException with SwingBuilder.bind
[GROOVY-3223] - Nested javac Ant task does not do property substitution on its attributes
[GROOVY-3226] - org.codehaus.groovy.tools.LoaderConfiguration fails to implement glob in expected fashion
[GROOVY-3229] - Can't subclass PrintWriter
[GROOVY-3238] - String.valueOf(BigInteger) doesn't call String.valueOf(Object)
[GROOVY-3242] - metaclass and curry() gives MissingMethodException
[GROOVY-3245] - DGM.readLines(String) incorrectly loses empty lines.
[GROOVY-3257] - XmlNodePrinter has protected methods that cannot be overriden
[GROOVY-3264] - DGM#denormalize - Mac style line breaks and empty string
[GROOVY-3269] - XmlTemplateEngine does not handle namespace prefixes correctly
[GROOVY-3271] - Update antlib.xml and add to Groovy JAR
[GROOVY-3274] - Classloader does not find resources properly
[GROOVY-3276] - Enums in 1.6-RC-1 no longer work with constructors with multiple parameters
[GROOVY-3277] - StackOverflowError with mixins
[GROOVY-3281] - GroovyScriptEngine doesn't inherit CompilerConfiguration from parent classloader
[GROOVY-3283] - Can't "import static" more than one enum
[GROOVY-3284] - Call behavior on enums is inconsistent
[GROOVY-3286] - DefaultGroovyMethods#reverse(String) does not reverse strings correctly
[GROOVY-3293] - Return statements of the form "return;" have wrong source position
[GROOVY-3301] - Groovy annotations not working with Hibernate
[GROOVY-3304] - NullPointerException in LabelVerifier
[GROOVY-3305] - Can't use list argument when The method's first argument class is int
[GROOVY-3311] - NPE on Groovy 1.6-RC2: Cannot invoke method times() on null object
[GROOVY-3315] - Calling a vararg method with no varargs causes IllegalArgumentException
[GROOVY-3317] - args passed from ant to groovy script: comes up blank
[GROOVY-3323] - compiler report error when using @Delegate to implement an interface
[GROOVY-3333] - Bindable/Vetoable ast transformations are missing a listener query method
[GROOVY-3335] - Exception while evaluating classes with static toString() methods
[GROOVY-3339] - Calling a method that takes a closure containing a list or number (and maybe others) constant throws a weird exception
[GROOVY-3345] - Proxy of a Proxy Fails
[GROOVY-3346] - DocGenerator truncates summary comment at first full stop rather than proper sentence boundary
[GROOVY-3353] - Category methods are not inherited
[GROOVY-3359] - GString.split() broken
[GROOVY-3363] - hasProperty and respondsTo on Object are broken as they're not defined as static in DGM
[GROOVY-3365] - Help/About gives NPE on secondary windows
[GROOVY-3367] - property expressions using "this" as object part won't work in combination with @Category
[GROOVY-3368] - Collection.sort{Closure} regression
[GROOVY-3370] - Generated Setter for boolean causes "Repetitive method name/signature..."
[GROOVY-3380] - @Delegate throws exception when the delegate target has private superinterface
[GROOVY-3383] - Problem with using .class in an interface def in Groovy 1.6
[GROOVY-3389] - Field Hiding Behavior Regression
[GROOVY-3397] - BigInteger losts precition during conversion to BigInteger using 'as' keyword
[GROOVY-3403] - CLONE -StubFor: No more calls to 'openConnection' expected at this point. End of demands
[GROOVY-3405] - static methods added through metaClass can't have default values for parameters
[GROOVY-3406] - GroovyRuntimeException thrown Ambiguous method overloading when accessing metaClas of java.lang.String
[GROOVY-3407] - lazyClassInit is called on proxy ClassNodes
[GROOVY-3410] - VerifyError appears with boolean method and long or larger primitive type in conditional operand of ternary statement
[GROOVY-3416] - Iterator returned by MetaClassRegistryImpl.iterator() throws ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException upon call to hasNext() if registry is empty
[GROOVY-3418] - @Bindable and final don't work together
[GROOVY-3423] - Imports of the form "import static SimpleClassName.*" cause compile error
[GROOVY-3424] - Cannot intercept constructors
[GROOVY-3426] - Cannot restore the original metaclass after intercepting static method
[GROOVY-3428] - Call site of static property is not updated after meta class is changed
[GROOVY-3429] - Call site of POJO is not updated after meta class is changed
[GROOVY-3433] - Callsite caching breaks the use of Hibernate proxies when combined with inheritance
[GROOVY-3434] - releaseResources should not close connection when within cacheConnect()
[GROOVY-3438] - Amendments related to strict security managers
[GROOVY-3442] - @Singleton doesn't support getInstance() as documented
[GROOVY-3449] - groovyc in 1.6.0 no longer supports 'deprecation' attribute on nested javac
[GROOVY-3450] - Ant properties don't work within the source / target attributes on javac Ant task within groovyc task
[GROOVY-3455] - Multiple Assignment in loop -> Inconsistent stack height 1 != 0
[GROOVY-3460] - duplicate class definition bei "interface x extends y"
[GROOVY-3462] - default closure parameter causes BUG! exception in phase 'class generation'
[GROOVY-3465] - Can't call statically imported method with named arguments
[GROOVY-3468] - NullPointerException in GroovyClassLoader.getPermissions() when called from BSFManager.exec()
[GROOVY-3470] - In SwingBuidler bind() validator: attribute doesn't pass value as closure arg
[GROOVY-3471] - @Delegate not working when it refers to a Map
[GROOVY-3473] - Javadocs for XmlNodePrinter describe wrong default value for preserveWhitespace
[GROOVY-3474] - StackOverflowError with mixins and closures
[GROOVY-3479] - DomToGroovy produces invalid output when namespaces are used in the source xml
[GROOVY-3480] - Spring AOP proxies broken
[GROOVY-3483] - Problems with inner enum
[GROOVY-3485] - memory leak in ClassInfo#LocalMap
[GROOVY-3486] - Some Groovy package names don't follow Java Language Lexical Structure and OSGi specification
[GROOVY-3491] - Problem with @Newify
[GROOVY-3498] - Closure is magically invoked
[GROOVY-3501] - NPE at groovy.lang.GroovyClassLoader.getPermissions(GroovyClassLoader.java:342)
[GROOVY-3502] - ConcurrentModificationException in GraphicsRenderer() -> ExpandoMetaClass -> ClassInfo
[GROOVY-3503] - Bi-directional binding does not work with synthetic or event triggered bindings
[GROOVY-3506] - ExpressionTransformer pattern doesn't work reliably
[GROOVY-3509] - GPath inconsistency
[GROOVY-3510] - NPE in MetaClassRegistryImpl
[GROOVY-3511] - Misleading exception in String to Number conversions
[GROOVY-3512] - Thread safety issue related to addBasicPersistenceMethods? explodes with an ArrayIndexOutOfBoundsException
[GROOVY-3513] - Memory leak in GroovyCategorySupport
[GROOVY-3515] - named parameters doesn't warn/produce an error when duplicates are given
[GROOVY-3516] - Fix introduced for GROOVY-3436 created a situation that can result in a stackoverflowerror with some groovy config objects
[GROOVY-3522] - keyStrokeAction shouldn't presume text is a shortcut
[GROOVY-3523] - Groovy needs to upgrde Ivy lib to upgrade maven hashing algorithm
[GROOVY-3527] - groovyc ant task generates invalid class name with IBM jdk and some build.xml paths
[GROOVY-3528] - trying access noon static field from static method leads to VerifyError
[GROOVY-3537] - getPackage() on Class Always Returns Null
[GROOVY-3542] - GroovyShell.evaluate(File) NPE
[GROOVY-3543] - error inside @Category when using multiple properties other than this
[GROOVY-3551] - strange error accessing property following method call in @Category class, invokeStaticMissingMethod
[GROOVY-3560] - IllegalArgumentException with interface typed varargs
[GROOVY-3564] - GroovyConsole AST Viewer command line interface broken
[GROOVY-3571] - equals method for @Immutable classes not correctly looking at other's class
[GROOVY-3574] - Closure.toString() calls the closure
[GROOVY-3575] - RuntimeException in SwingBuilder data binding
[GROOVY-3576] - Verifier#getMetaClassField(ClassNode) can throw a NPE
[GROOVY-3577] - AbstractReaderSource.getLine always returns null when no Janitor
[GROOVY-3589] - cast with as keyword produces error unlike versions 1.5 and before
[GROOVY-3590] - Map.get(key, defaultvalue) doesn't work properly if current value is null.
[GROOVY-3591] - Test faiing on Mac OS X with the latest JDK update
[GROOVY-3594] - line breakpoint breaks execution as many times as many expressions are on that line
[GROOVY-3595] - Bad Error Message in SingletonASTTransformation
[GROOVY-3596] - Generic Map reference fails to compile
[GROOVY-3599] - BindingProxy.setModel() disconnects listeners
[GROOVY-3603] - imageIcon and other such "default text" nodes should auto-convert fom GStrings to Strings
[GROOVY-3606] - @Bindable generates wrong byte code depending on compilation order
[GROOVY-3607] - FactoryBuilderSupport throws NPE when registering a factory under special conditions
[GROOVY-3609] - groovysh display command shows wrong line numbers
[GROOVY-3611] - CLONE -Compile-error when implementing a method from a generic interface
[GROOVY-3615] - Groovyc does not set ACC_SUPER for classes
[GROOVY-3621] - Groovy swallowing exceptions when MissingMethodException occurs with a closure that throws an exception
[GROOVY-3622] - gpath regression: lists of lists are no longer flattened as in Groovy 1.0
[GROOVY-3623] - A call to MetaClassRegistry.removeMetaClass() can unexpectedly cause other live entries to be removed
[GROOVY-3624] - implicit null call allowed for primitive type argument
[GROOVY-3627] - Compiler resolves this.foo() and super.foo() to statically imported method foo
[GROOVY-3640] - Some Users report seeing no results in AST Browser
[GROOVY-3647] - Vetoable and Bindable properties cause rendering bug when PropertyVetoException is raised
[GROOVY-4804] - Command line arguments containing * (asterisk) not passed correctly

Improvement

[GROOVY-2283] - Add ability to dynamically modify classes blocked by StackTraceUtils during a sanitize operation.
[GROOVY-2414] - Extend XmlParser and Node to allow subclassing, permitting additional capabilities to reuse basic functionality
[GROOVY-2429] - Allow subclasses of XmlParser to customize creation of new Nodes
[GROOVY-2547] - Parent is still set in Node after removing it from the tree
[GROOVY-2570] - Support the multiple namespaces with NamespaceBuilderSupport
[GROOVY-2602] - TimeDuration should override toString
[GROOVY-2613] - add 'transform to platform newline' function to the GDK String API
[GROOVY-2841] - Upgrade ASM to 3.1
[GROOVY-2853] - Unclear error message for syntax error when using generics and forget bracket
[GROOVY-2855] - Stackoverflow in compiler if bad source code has class implementing itself
[GROOVY-2880] - Enhance ObjectGraphBuilder to support additional plural logic
[GROOVY-2904] - [ [a:1, b:2, c:3] ].flatten() -> [ 1, 2, 3 ], but should be [ [a:1, b:2, c:3] ]
[GROOVY-2995] - GString: document or coerce
[GROOVY-3071] - include example of observing and editing compilation phase during class loading
[GROOVY-3086] - Class level TestNG Test annotation on a groovy class does not work as expected
[GROOVY-3091] - Allow setting String based strategies on ObjectGraphBuilder[IdentityResolver|ReferenceResolver]
[GROOVY-3092] - allow combinations() to work on Collections not just Lists
[GROOVY-3094] - ObjectGraphBuilder: allow references to be resolved lazily
[GROOVY-3112] - Occasional "Access is denied" message with <groovyc>
[GROOVY-3118] - Better Cobertura Support
[GROOVY-3132] - Groovydoc doesn't support multiple locations in sourcepath
[GROOVY-3148] - Add javabean property and user generated setter support to @Bindable AST transformation.
[GROOVY-3172] - Add setter for field MethodNode.name
[GROOVY-3180] - @since Javadoc support for Groovy JDK is missing
[GROOVY-3185] - Provide clickable stacktrace and error messages in the Swing console
[GROOVY-3192] - Improvement to OSGi manifest
[GROOVY-3202] - Change Default Resolve Strategy Used For .with Method
[GROOVY-3206] - Added @since Tag to DefaultGroovyMethods.groovy and DefaultGroovyStaticMethods.groovy
[GROOVY-3210] - When list is indexed with a list, make semantics of r-value (getAt()) and l-value (putAt()) consistent
[GROOVY-3221] - Open up AntrlParserPlugin for extension
[GROOVY-3241] - Ivy should be declarer as optionnal dependency in groovy-all
[GROOVY-3244] - Support setting clientProperties with map syntax
[GROOVY-3249] - Groovy Examples should include an OSGi example
[GROOVY-3251] - Make Groovy-JDKs HTML 4.01 valid
[GROOVY-3265] - XmlNodePrinter outputs too much whitespace
[GROOVY-3279] - Remove ANT dependency on GroovyDocTool
[GROOVY-3290] - ProxyMetaClass.use method should return the result of the closure call
[GROOVY-3291] - Allow File.append and File.leftShift to handle binary data.
[GROOVY-3294] - Improved class loading for AST transformations
[GROOVY-3300] - Disallow try statements without catch or finally block
[GROOVY-3320] - SQL Column Aliases are ignored by groovy.sql with MySQL
[GROOVY-3324] - Share "reflection based ClassNodes" that wrap the same java.lang.Class
[GROOVY-3337] - ObjectGraphBuilder should support multiple associations for the same class
[GROOVY-3344] - Allow config file to overide defaults for groovy console font size and console height and width
[GROOVY-3369] - Better error message for Grab parameter errors
[GROOVY-3381] - null.clone() should throw NPE instead of CloneNotSupportedException
[GROOVY-3390] - Add configuration options to grape for http proxy settings
[GROOVY-3420] - Commons CLI 1.2 is released
[GROOVY-3431] - New setters for Statement subclasses
[GROOVY-3435] - Parameterize collection types in AST classes
[GROOVY-3441] - Should upgrade Groovy's ASM dependency to ASM 3
[GROOVY-3445] - Provide better error message when an annotation member is set twice
[GROOVY-3454] - Compiler should enforce that annotation value w/o default is provided
[GROOVY-3477] - Add setVariables method to GroovyServlet for easy extending of binded vars in custom classes
[GROOVY-3489] - Error message when leaving off round brackets and calling a method with a list literal could be improved
[GROOVY-3494] - @Immutable gives slightly vague error message if used on a class that cannot be made immutable
[GROOVY-3505] - Doc (of any kind) missing for XmlTemplateEngine
[GROOVY-3507] - Class comment nominated for the most useless comment of the year
[GROOVY-3533] - GroovyConsole AST Viewer does not display the accessedVariable property of Variable nodes
[GROOVY-3534] - GroovyConsole AST Viewer does not display NamedArgumentListExpression nodes
[GROOVY-3535] - GroovyConsole AST Viewer does not display Parameter type fields of MethodNode entries
[GROOVY-3555] - It would be good if @Delegate didn't delegate @Deprecated methods
[GROOVY-3561] - Documentation for the sort method in Collection class is misleading
[GROOVY-3569] - return value of firstRow() if empty
[GROOVY-3572] - Align SwingBuilder.doOutside() with SwingBuilder.edt()
[GROOVY-3586] - @Immutable should set the class to final if not already set
[GROOVY-3593] - Groovy Support for annotations on package declarations and imports
[GROOVY-3601] - Provide examples of global and local AST Transformations in the example package
[GROOVY-3614] - let the groovy.servlet.TemplateServlet use system property groovy.source.encoding as the source encoding
[GROOVY-3642] - Add synthetic binding support for JSpinner.value
[GROOVY-3650] - Gradle supports a more compact specification of maven/ivy style dependencies - it would be nice for @Grab to support this too

New Feature

[GROOVY-1193] - new convenience methods in DOMCategory: InputStream.parse; Reader.parse; Node.xpath
[GROOVY-1605] - Have a delete() method in File that deletes all subdirectories and contained files
[GROOVY-2335] - StAX builder
[GROOVY-2733] - Generify collections' related methods in GDK
[GROOVY-3106] - Provide a split(closure) DGM method on collections
[GROOVY-3138] - Add ability to hide script recopy output in Swing console
[GROOVY-3158] - Include transaction closure in standard api
[GROOVY-3188] - Groovy should provide way to turn off turning package scoped fields into properties
[GROOVY-3230] - Integrate JmxBuilder into Groovy
[GROOVY-3246] - There should be a DGM.normalize(String) method which acts like readLines().join('\n')
[GROOVY-3425] - Power Assertions
[GROOVY-3432] - Groovy Console needs option to show AST of current script
[GROOVY-3443] - Patch to enhance String class with a find method that takes regular expressions
[GROOVY-3458] - SwingBuilder: add noparent node
[GROOVY-3459] - SwingBuilder: add a method to handle key related input actions
[GROOVY-3469] - Add include mechanism to Groovlets and GSP's
[GROOVY-3608] - Introduce AST Builder to easily create AST from code and strings
[GROOVY-3619] - Enable JComponent.size to be bindable
[GROOVY-3641] - Added new rounding methods to Float and Double that take a precision being the number of decimal places to round to
[GROOVY-3652] - Enhance Swing classes and models with additional methods

Sub-task

[GROOVY-1298] - [GroovyScriptEngine] Runtime exception in custom ResourceConnector causes misleading error message
[GROOVY-1734] - Performance of GroovyScriptEngine needs improvement
[GROOVY-1783] - GroovyScriptEngine can cause Stack Overflow
[GROOVY-2588] - CLONE -Class reloading does not work with multi-level dependencies
[GROOVY-2674] - GroovyScriptEngine does not properly handle dependencies
[GROOVY-2751] - let GroovyScriptEngine use a CompilationPhase to track depending classes
[GROOVY-2753] - GroovyScriptEngine doesn't not update dependent classes in cache, only the root class
[GROOVY-2762] - Groovydoc support for fields and properties
[GROOVY-2909] - Groovydoc does not take inheritance into consideration.
[GROOVY-2978] - GroovyDoc misses some comments on classes and methods
[GROOVY-3110] - Inner enums not supported
[GROOVY-3255] - ClassNode:306
[GROOVY-3261] - Class comments in package summary
[GROOVY-3313] - Overview page formatting
[GROOVY-3357] - GroovyScriptEngine fails to load mutually dependant classes

Wish

[GROOVY-3295] - Make Closure a java.util.concurrent.Callable