Groovy is a powerful, optionally typed and dynamic language, with static-typing and static compilation capabilities, for the Java platform aimed at multiplying developers’ productivity thanks to a concise, familiar and easy to learn syntax.
It integrates smoothly with any Java program, and immediately delivers to your application powerful features, including scripting capabilities, Domain-Specific Language authoring, runtime and compile-time meta-programming and functional programming.
Latest Groovy version is available on Bintray
Binary distribution links are on the package page.
Maven, Gradle and Ivy dependency declaration snippets are available on specific files of a particular module.
You don’t need the source code to use Apache Groovy but if you wish to explore its inner workings or build it for yourself there are two ways to obtain the source files.
Apache Groovy uses Git. The official Git repository is at:
https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/groovy.git
And a mirror is hosted on Github:
https://github.com/apache/groovy
The Github mirror is read-only and provides convenience to users and developers to explore the code and for the community to accept contributions via Github pull requests.
Simply git clone the repo (or the repo you forked via the github website) and you will have the complete source.
Alternatively, you can download the source distribution and unpack it.
If obtaining the source from the source distribution and you intend to build from source, you also need to download and install Gradle and use the downloaded Gradle to execute one bootstrap step.
As mentioned in the previous paragraph, if you download the source distribution you need to bootstrap Gradle. This isn’t needed if you clone from the Github repo.
Each version of Groovy is built and tested using a specific version of Gradle.
That version is specified by the gradle_version property defined in the gradle.properties
file within the root directory. Luckily you shouldn’t need to know that version and,
after bootstrapping, you should use the gradlew command which will ensure the
correct version is always used.
The version of Gradle used for the bootstrap step has some flexibility though in general you might need to download a version similar to the version of Groovy the build is expecting.
To bootstrap Gradle, at the top directory of your unpacked source, run the command:
gradle -b wrapper.gradle wrapper
On Unix-like systems, use ./gradle.
If the version of Gradle you have installed is close to the required version,
you might be able to get away without the -b wrapper.gradle above, but if in
doubt leave it in.
NOTE: At this point, the Gradle wrapper should be set up and from now on you should use
the gradlew command instead of gradle. (On Unix-like systems, use ./gradlew).
Build is .
To build you will need:
To build everything using Gradle, use the following command (./gradlew on Unix-like systems):
gradlew clean dist
Note: The gradlew command automatically downloads the correct Gradle version if needed, you do not need to download it first.
This will generate a distribution similar to the zip you can download on the Groovy download page.
To build everything and launch unit tests, use:
gradlew test
If you want to launch one unit test, use this. <TestClassName> is like groovy.GroovyMethodsTest.
gradlew :test --tests <TestClassName>
To build from IntelliJ IDEA:
gradlew jar idea
Then open the generated project in IDEA.
To build from Eclipse:
gradlew jar eclipse
Then open the generated project and the generated subprojects in Eclipse. But be aware that Eclipse tends to be more limited in its ability to reproduce a Gradle build structure. The generated project files may contain a circular dependency which may or may not prevent Eclipse from using them. It depends on the Eclipse version, if this is an issue or not.
To build the documentation (Groovy Language Documentation):
gradlew asciidoc
All code samples of the documentation guide are pulled from actual test cases. To run a single documentation test case, take for example src/spec/test/semantics/PowerAssertTest.groovy
gradlew testSinglePowerAssertTest
(Note the omission of package name: class is semantics.PowerAssertTest but only PowerAssertTest is added to testSingle.)
The Groovy build supports the JVM instruction invokedynamic. If you want to build Groovy with invokedynamic, you can use the project property indy:
gradlew -Pindy=true clean test
Please note that the following Gradle tasks generate both indy and non indy variants of the jars, so you don’t need to use the system property:
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dist
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install
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uploadArchives
Groovy core team tunes performance through YourKit Java Profiler, which is sponsored by YourKit.
Groovy is licensed under the terms of the Apache License, Version 2.0