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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?

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 :)