Way to deep traverse a Groovy object with dot in string using GPath

Question

The situation I have is that I\'m querying MongoDB with a string for a field that is more than one level deep in the object hierarchy. This query must be a string. So for

Answer 1

Based on the bug/thread it would appear there are some ambiguity problems with supporting a dotted property accessor. Based on the mailing list thread it would seem that evaluating the queryField string would be your best bet:

def result = [a: [b: [c: 42]]]
def queryString = 'a.b.c'

def evalResult = Eval.x(result, 'x.' + queryString)
assert evalResult == 42

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The mailing list thread is a little old, so there's a new-ish (since at least 1.7.2) Eval class that can help out with running small snippets that don't have a large binding.

Otherwise, you can split the string and recursively do property evaluations on the object, effectively reproducing a subset of GPath traversal behavior.