Groovy Goodness: Transform Elements While Flattening [Snippet]
Learn more about elements in this Groovy snippet.
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flatten method in Groovy to flatten a collection that contains other collections into a single collection with all elements. We can pass a closure as an extra argument to the
flatten method to transform each element that is flattened. The argument of the closure is the element from the original collection.
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In the following example, we first use the flatten method without a closure argument. Then we pass a closure argument and transform the element:
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def list = [1, [2, 3], [[4]]]
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// Simple flatten the nested collections.
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assert list.flatten() == [1, 2, 3, 4]
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// We can use a closure to transform
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// the elements in the resulting collection.
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assert list.flatten { it * 2 } == [2, 4, 6, 8]
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