Changelog for Groovy 1.0.0-JSR-3

Bug

• [GROOVY-210] - System.out and classloader issues under Tomcat
• [GROOVY-407] - Static member variable causing ClassFormatError
• [GROOVY-432] - Groovy Reflection problem for unknown classes
• [GROOVY-434] - parser will hang on the attached code
• [GROOVY-584] - Exception passing array into Closure
• [GROOVY-599] - GString not coerced for static methods
• [GROOVY-652] - package name contained "def" groovyc report error.
• [GROOVY-670] - embedded: when using alternative classloader code parsing succeeds but evaluation fails
• [GROOVY-805] - Method calls on a separate line should be supported
• [GROOVY-820] - GroovyMain command line switch -i fails when no backup extension is specified
• [GROOVY-835] - GroovyClassloader doesn't use CompilerConfiguration for classpath
• [GROOVY-847] - Correct documentation to point to
• [GROOVY-861] - Expclit Groovy Types or embedding in Tomcat
• [GROOVY-863] - Interfaces and abstract classes definitions require semi-colons
• [GROOVY-881] - can't call this(string) in constructor
• [GROOVY-886] - each(){} throws NPE when called on a Java Object[], that contains String[]'s with null entries
• [GROOVY-889] - Under JDK 1.5 the registration of static meta method seems to result in doubled entries of the instance meta methods
• [GROOVY-893] - left paren must be on same line as throw exception declaration
• [GROOVY-897] - JSRVariableScopeCodeVisitor doesn't like String[]
• [GROOVY-898] - NPE in ErrorCollector / Null CompilerConfiguration?!
• [GROOVY-900] - + not concatenating
• [GROOVY-901] - SimpleTemplateEngine error :"Caught: Script1.groovy: 1: expecting anything but ''\n''; got it anyway @ line"
• [GROOVY-902] - GroovyClassLoader is unable to load dependent scripts that have an absolute path containing whitespaces
• [GROOVY-903] - 'groovy' is unable to run scripts that have an absolute path containing whitespaces
• [GROOVY-907] - Empty Range (0..<0) broken
• [GROOVY-922] - Coercion in Method lookup should take generic ctors into account
• [GROOVY-927] - IncompatibleClassChangeError when implementing a class instead of extending it
• [GROOVY-930] - Iterator.next() returning Object[] causes NullPointerException.
• [GROOVY-931] - Closure problem in JSR-02 which was fine under JSR-01
• [GROOVY-935] - Explicit import needed to call static method
• [GROOVY-941] - groovyj plugin does not report the file that compilation errors occur within and you can't click on them to jump to the line
• [GROOVY-942] - Empty Range (0..<0) broken in List.getAt(Range)
• [GROOVY-948] - GroovyJ breaks the "Colors and Fonts" panel in global settings
• [GROOVY-956] - Methods are wrongly picked when the arguments are interfaces
• [GROOVY-958] - List + List => Wrong Result
• [GROOVY-961] - Groovyc ant task (and eclipse groovy plugin) reports compile error on declaring type on lhs
• [GROOVY-962] - groovy -n -p not working when reading from stdin
• [GROOVY-964] - Can't access dynamicly defined properties from scriptlets in Groovy scriptlets in Ant build files
• [GROOVY-968] - list.putAt(EmptyRange) doesn't obey position
• [GROOVY-970] - error using read(char[ ] array) of reader class
• [GROOVY-980] - SimpleTemplateEngine fails when enclose expression dosn't immediately evaluate to a String
• [GROOVY-986] - Bugs of Range with BigDecimal boundaries
• [GROOVY-987] - Groovy Beans Now Have More Flavor
• [GROOVY-988] - Java syntax for creating an array does not work
• [GROOVY-989] - Closures and the handling of variables
• [GROOVY-994] - PARSER BUG: Tried to configure ArgumentListExpression with null Node
• [GROOVY-995] - wrong funtion is used
• [GROOVY-999] - Eclipse plugin does not compile groovy classes that rely on jar imports (patch included)
• [GROOVY-1000] - reset call in getAt for Matcher
• [GROOVY-1080] - Slash cannot be specified in regex

Improvement

• [GROOVY-911] - eachFile* and eachDir methods should report useful errors
• [GROOVY-920] - provide size() on StringBuffer
• [GROOVY-924] - implement list.putAt(Range) to work like list.putAt(splice)
• [GROOVY-925] - map.findAll() should return a subMap rather than a list of HashMap Entries
• [GROOVY-926] - One-line integration with Java for the simplest cases
• [GROOVY-940] - factor out groovy.util.XmlTemplateEngine.XmlPrinter as stand-alone class
• [GROOVY-943] - provide putAt(Range) on StringBuffer
• [GROOVY-945] - keep StringBuffer << closed under its type and make String << return StringBuffer
• [GROOVY-946] - support sleep(seconds) as static method on Object
• [GROOVY-955] - Improvement to permissions handling.
• [GROOVY-957] - Overriding Object methods using "field" closure methods on Expando
• [GROOVY-976] - allow Groovlets to map any url to any resource
• [GROOVY-978] - Accessing match groups from the closure called by String.replaceAll(regex, closure)
• [GROOVY-983] - About the string representations of maps, lists, and arrays
• [GROOVY-997] - GroovyJ should allow the compilation of individual Groovy scripts

New Feature

• [GROOVY-793] - implement Collection.unique()
• [GROOVY-797] - Groovy plugin should include a default runtime for scripts
• [GROOVY-879] - Provide a replacement for the dropped === operator, e.g. Object.is(Object)
• [GROOVY-963] - provide StringBuffer.putAt(Range) analogous to List.putAt(Range)
• [GROOVY-969] - Support the method inject() on arrays

Wish

• [GROOVY-782] - Provide a xml printer to print Node as xml format