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It's nice being able to set properties by passing them to the constructor in Groovy:

def foo = new Foo(bar: 23, wibble: "hello")

But if Foo is created via a factory method instead:

def foo = Foo.createFoo(bar: 23, wibble: "hello")

It doesn't work

where

class Foo {

  .. properties

  static Foo createFoo() {
     return new Foo();
  }

}

How can I get this to work with factories?

No, I don't mean that.

I know Groovy can automatically apply properties without me having to code any manual property application code if I call a no arg constructor:

I.e.

class Foo {
  Foo() {
  }
}

This allows me to construct the object like so:

def foo = new Foo(port:80, host: "localhost")

The problem is my Foo class already takes another arg in its constructor (which is not a property), i.e. Foo is really like this:

class Foo {
  Foo(someOtherParam) {
  }
}

I was hoping that Groovy would still automatically apply params in this case, i.e. allow me to do:

def foo = new Foo("wibble", [port:80, host: "localhost"])

but that doesn't seem to work.

hence.. I am applying the params manually

OK, I finally understand. You're right, you can't get automatic property binding once you're no longer using the default constructor. I've been told it may be worth a JIRA :)