Groovy: Variable Substitution in dynamic Strings

Question

Hi all,

I'm currently facing a variable substitution related problem in groovy. While this is quite trivial:

Map map = [s1:"Hello", s2:"World"]
println "${map.s1} ${map.s2}!" // "Hello World!"

As this works, I'm pretty sure that something like this should work as well:

Map map = [s1:"Hello", s2:"World"]
def dynamic = loadStringFromFile();

println "${dynamic} ${dynamic.class}" // "${s1} ${s2}! (java.lang.String)"

// now the voodoo part
println applyVoodoo(dynamic, map) // "Hello World!"

Does anybody know how to get this working?

Cheers

Answer 1

Try

def dynamic = new GString (loadStringFromFile())
println dynamic

Answer 2

dynamic.replaceAll(/\$\{(\w+)\}/) { m, k -> map[k] }

Answer 3

You would normally do this with Groovy Templates.