Hello,

I am trying to write an example of using methodMissing but am having trouble.

What I want to do is on a Person class I want to be able to call printProperty<property_name> so a call to new Person(title:"Test").printPropertyTitle() would result in Test being printed to the console. My current code ALWAYS calls method missing and I can't see what is wrong. Can anyone help?

class Person {
  String name
  String address
 
  def methodMissing(String f, args){
    println "METHOD MISSING"
    if(f.startsWith("printProperty")){
       def target = f-"printProperty"
       target = target[0].toLowerCase() + target[1..-1]
       if(Person.metaClass.hasProperty(this,target)){
          Person.metaClass."$f" = {
            println delegate."$target"
          }  
          println this."$target"      
       }else{
          println "NO SUCH PROPERTY"
       }    
    }
  }
}
def x = new Person(name:"akjsfsk")
x.printPropertyName()
x.printPropertyName()

James Hughes | Senior Software Engineer | Kainos | M: +353 (0)877 931 634 | j.hughes@(protected)

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