When Groovy Property Access Attacks!

A quick best-practice hint...

Groovy's property access generally leads to terser code, however there's (at least) one time when using it is not a good idea; when you want to know what class an object is.

println x.class.name may work for most types of object, but what happens if x is, hmm let's say, a Map?

You probably won't be surprised to find the following code fails.

    def x = [:]
    assert x.class == java.util.LinkedHashMap

Even more entertainingly, this code will throw NullPointerException

    def x = [:]
    assert x.class.name == 'java.util.LinkedHashMap'