groovy.lang
Interface GroovyObject

All Known Subinterfaces:

GroovyInterceptable, GroovyResultSet

All Known Implementing Classes:

ANSI.RenderMessageSource, AntBuilder, Attribute, BaseMarkupBuilder, Binding, BooleanWrapper, Builder, Builder.Built, BuilderSupport, ByteWrapper, CharWrapper, Closure, CurriedClosure, DelegatingMetaClass, DOMBuilder, DoubleWrapper, Expando, ExpandoMetaClass, ExpandoMetaClass.ExpandoMetaConstructor, ExpandoMetaClass.ExpandoMetaProperty, FactoryBuilderSupport, FilteredAttributes, FilteredNodeChildren, FloatWrapper, GPathResult, GroovyLog, GroovyMBean, GroovyMock, GroovyObjectSupport, GroovyObjectWrapper, GroovyResultSetExtension, GroovyRowResult, GroovyShell, GString, GStringImpl, IntWrapper, IteratorClosureAdapter, LongWrapper, MarkupBuilder, MessageSource, MethodClosure, ModelBinding, NamespaceBuilderSupport, NoChildren, NodeBuilder, NodeChild, NonEmptySequence, NullObject, ObjectGraphBuilder, PojoWrapper, Proxy, Reference, SAXBuilder, Script, ScriptReference, Sequence, ServletBinding, ShortWrapper, Wrapper

public interface GroovyObject

The interface implemented by all Groovy objects. Especially handy for using Groovy objects when in the Java world.

Version:

$Revision: 6778 $

Author:

James Strachan

Method Summary

MetaClass	getMetaClass()
Object	getProperty(String property)
Object	invokeMethod(String name, Object args) Invokes the given method
void	setMetaClass(MetaClass metaClass) Allows the MetaClass to be replaced with a derived implementation
void	setProperty(String property, Object newValue) Sets the given property to the new value

Method Detail

invokeMethod

Object invokeMethod(String name,
                    Object args)

Invokes the given method

getProperty

Object getProperty(String property)

Returns:

the given property

setProperty

void setProperty(String property,
                 Object newValue)

Sets the given property to the new value

getMetaClass

MetaClass getMetaClass()

Returns:

the metaClass of this instance

setMetaClass

void setMetaClass(MetaClass metaClass)

Allows the MetaClass to be replaced with a derived implementation