Minor new features of Groovy 2.0

Although I’ve gone at length through the key major features of Groovy 2.0in the InfoQ article, there have been a few smaller ones which are interesting to note. And groovy guys like Tim Yates, André Steingress or Mr Hakki were quick to blog about them!

• inject() method with a default initial value
• takeWhile() and dropWhile() methods
• withDefault(), withEager() methods
• matchesPartially() method for matchers (to see if a string might match a pattern given more input)
• @NotYetImplemented transformation for test cases
• an iterable collectEntries() variant
• first() and last() working with iterables as well
• collate() method (although it’s also in 1.8.6 actually) (see coverage by Tim and Mr Hakki)
• calendar ranges (useful for iterating over days of a certain period)

Those are some smaller features compared to the big highlights of Groovy 2.0, but they are definitely useful and make you more productive every day!