Problem scenario
You are running a Groovy program. 

Here is your code:

def input = System.console().readLine ‘Please provide some input: ‘
def x = input
def boardArray = new String[2]
boardArray[0] = “”
boardArray[1] = “”
boardArray[1] = “$x”
println boardArray[1]

When you run it (i.e., with groovy foobar.groovy), you get this error:

Caught: java.lang.ArrayStoreException: org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.GStringImpl
java.lang.ArrayStoreException: org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.GStringImpl

What should you do?

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Problem scenario
You are running a Groovy program.  

Here is your code:

def input = System.console().readLine ‘Please provide some input: ‘
def x = input
def boardArray = new String[2]
boardArray[0] = “”
boardArray[1] = “”
boardArray[1] = $x //this is the incorrect version
println boardArray[1]

When you run it (i.e., with groovy foobar.groovy), you get this error:

Caught: groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: $x for class:
groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property

What should you do?

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Problem scenario
You have an object that you want to sequentially pass through.  That is, you want to print either the value or the key/name and value pair of every member data item of the object.  How do you print every individual data member of a given object in Groovy?

Solution
Invoke the “.properties.each” keyword.  This built-in feature will allow you to do just this. 

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Problem scenario
You are trying to write a simple Groovy program.  You have an array of individual strings.  How do you assign one of them to be the value that a variable is?

Solution
To assign an element of an array, should have quotes around the variable and the $ symbol and the syntax ” as String” should follow the closing quote mark.

def input = System.console().readLine ‘Please provide some input: ‘
def x = input
def boardArray = new String[2]
boardArray[0] = “”
boardArray[1] = “”
boardArray[1] = “$x” as String //This is the correct version
println boardArray[1] …

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Problem scenario
You want to use Groovy to create a class and an object that is composed of many individual member data types.  How do you do this and access an individual data type of the object?

Solution
This Groovy program creates two objects from the same class using different syntax.  One method uses syntax “[]” and another method uses the “new” keyword.

@groovy.transform.Canonical
class Program {
    String mem1 = “”
    String mem2 = “”
    String mem3 = “”
    String mem4 = “”
    String mem5 = “”
    String mem6 = “”
    String mem7 = “”
    String mem8 = “”
    String mem9 = “”
}

programsv1 = new Program( “1”, …

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Problem scenario
You want to test out Groovy as a scripting language.  You want a Groovy program to read in user input and print it out to the screen.  How do you do this?

Prerequisite
This assumes that you have already installed Groovy on a Linux server.  If you are running a Red Hat derivative (e.g., CentOS, RHEL, or Fedora), click on this link. 

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Problem scenario
You want to use a Java Virtual Machine language on a CentOS/RHEL/Fedora server.  You want to test out the language too.  What should you do?

Prerequisites
Install Groovy; this command should work (assuming your server is configured to work with a yum repository with groovy):  sudo yum -y install groovy
# If your yum repositories do not have Groovy, see this posting.

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Problem scenario
You want to use a Java Virtual Machine language on an Ubuntu Linux server.  You want to test out the language too.  What should you do?

Prerequisites
Install Groovy version 1; this command should work:  sudo apt-get -y update; sudo apt-get -y install groovy

Procedures
1.  Create a file called hello.groovy with the following five lines:

class Example {
static void main(String[] args) {
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