Question

I would like to learn how to escape dot in GString so groovy (1.8) does not treat it as a part of an variable inside sql.execute. I have the following code:

  Map<String, String> dbSettings = [schemaName:"testSchema"];

  String myDbPrefix = dbSetting.schemaName + ".";

  sql.execute "DELETE FROM ${myDbPrefix}myTable"

And I got this error:

Ignoring groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: myTable for class: java.lang.String 

Clearly indicating that . was interpreted as part of variable ${myDbPrefix}.

Answer 1

Does escaping the embedded variable help?

     sql.execute "DELETE FROM ${Sql.expand myDbPrefix}myTable"