Multi-level ternary operator

March 24, 2010 Evgeny Goldin Groovy, 0

Love one. Can’t be easily debugged, probably .. But reads very nicely:

String getScmClass()
{
    ( this.@scmClass == 'svn' ) ? 'hudson.scm.SubversionSCM'  :
    ( this.@scmClass == 'git' ) ? 'hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM' :
                                  null
}

Still, standard mapping is usually better – it allows to dump all known options:

Map    scmClasses = [ svn : 'hudson.scm.SubversionSCM',
                      git : 'hudson.plugins.git.GitSCM' ]
String getScmClass()
{
  def    scmClass = scmClasses[ this.@scmClass ]
  assert scmClass, "Unknown [${this.@scmClass}]. Known classes are ${scmClasses.keySet()}"
         scmClass
}

Code, Groovy

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