Parse Groovy Config Files with Groovy Shell and ConfigSlurper

Extract config properties from a Groovy project:

I just worked on a subsidary project which has dependency on a parent Groovy project. The requirements includes parsing groovy variables out. Groovy has a slightly different (but powerful) syntax for it’s configration files, so I have to find one or write my own parser to git the information out.

Figured out Groovy has a command line utility which can be used in bash like shell

To use it, just create a file and run it with groovysh --quiet

Remember to ‘:exit’ to return execution if calling the script in a parent thread. I’m naming those scripts to *.groovysh to clarification and run them with –quiet mode whenever that’s being use by a parent script.

Sample .groovysh file:

println 'Parsing QVXP ServiceConfig.groovy'

servicesConfig = new ConfigSlurper().parse(ServicesConfig)
file = new File('WSDLsUrl.csv')
file.delete()
servicesConfig.cxf.client.each ({ key, value ->
  if (value && value.wsdl) {
    file << value.wsdl;
    file << ','
  }
})

println 'Saved WSDL list to file WSDLsUrl.csv'
:exit