Golo 0-preview9 Devoxx Edition
Golo 0-preview is there just in time for the awesome Devoxx 2013 conference!
If you are attending Devoxx next week, do not miss our Golo Tools in Action session Tuesday 18:05 - 18:35 Room 9.
What’s new?
Highlight of this release: class adapters
Sometimes you play with a third-party API, and this third-party API wants you to pass some object that is an instance of some interface or class.
We now provide you with an API to generate adapter classes at runtime.
The Spark micro web framework is a great example, as it expects HTTP
request handlers to subclass spark.Route at some point.
Here is how this can be done in Golo:
module sparky
import spark
import spark.Spark
function main = |args| {
# Configuration
let adaptation = map[
["extends", "spark.Route"],
["implements", map[
["handle", |this, request, response| {
return args: get(0)
}]
]]
]
# Adapter "factory"
let fabric = AdapterFabric()
let routeMaker = fabric: maker(adaptation)
# Make Spark happy
get(routeMaker: newInstance("/"))
}The API allows for more fancy things, including overriding methods and doing some form of proxying.
The following snippet is an example where we proxy a list to replicate all add method calls into
another list called carbonCopy:
let carbonCopy = list[]
let conf = map[
["extends", "java.util.ArrayList"],
["overrides", map[
["*", |super, name, args| {
if name == "add" {
if args: length() == 2 {
carbonCopy: add(args: get(1))
} else {
carbonCopy: add(args: get(1), args: get(2))
}
}
return super: spread(args)
}
]]
]]
let list = AdapterFabric(): maker(conf): newInstance()
list: add("bar")
list: add(0, "foo")
list: add("baz")
# Guess what is inside carbonCopy...
println(carbonCopy)Classpath flag
The golo and run subcommands of the golo command-line tool now support a classpath flag that
adds both jars and folders to the classpath.
The “nice” thing is that it does not use a separator based syntax, hence you can do:
golo golo --classpath lib/*.jar /some/path /tmp/all/*.jar --files main.golo
Classloader improvements
Thanks to the feedback from Julien Viet, we improved the way Golo deals with classloaders. More specifically, it works fine in container-style environments such as Java application servers.
Minor
Our Golo Developer Advocate Philippe contributed some new augmentations: count and exists on
lists, maps, tuples, vectors and sets.
Reading passwords from the standard console input (readPassword) can now be made in a secure fashion.
…and of course we have small fixes there and there.
