Question

I’m about to start a social web app project.

While i was designing classes , i decided to define interfaces like “commentable” or “likeable” to use them when needed.

Yet i couldn’t figure it out how to implement it in Groovy, that i am in the learning phase.

The Example below is from the Groovy documentation,

 interface X
{ void f(); void g(int n); void h(String s, int n); }

x = [ f: {println "f called"} ] as X
x.f()
//x.g()    // NPE here

Say this is one of my interfaces , and I want to use a Class called B to implement this interface ..

shall I just say B as X , in the related controller?

How to do it in domain layer? If a class Z is, lets say “commentable” , shall i just make a domain class called Comment and say Z hasMany Comment? and use the interface in the controller layer?

What is the Groovy way to do this correctly? I’m bit confused and a little clarification would be really nice.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

The example you show is not the right one to use when implementing your own interfaces. That’s a convenient way to only partially implement an interface. In this example only the f method is implemented, so the others fail as you saw. This is useful for testing when you have a large interface but only call a few methods in the class under test, so you don’t need to implement the whole interface.

You implement interfaces in Groovy just like in Java:

interface Math {
   int add(int a, int b)

   int multiply(int a, int b)
}

class SimpleMathImpl implements Math {
   int add(int a, int b) {
      a + b
   }

   int multiply(int a, int b) {
      a * b
   }
}