Comments on: Overriding the ‘as’ operator http://www.warneronstine.com/2007/12/06/overriding-the-as-operator/ Where technology and art disappear Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:55:00 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Andres Almiray http://www.warneronstine.com/2007/12/06/overriding-the-as-operator/comment-page-1/#comment-134 Andres Almiray Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 urn:uuid:{a.guid}#comment-134 Well for my part I use it on Json-lib to transform Strings, Lists and Maps to their JSON representation with a single coercion with as http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/groovy.html Well for my part I use it on Json-lib to transform Strings, Lists and Maps to their JSON representation with a single coercion with as

http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/groovy.html

]]> By: Warner Onstine http://www.warneronstine.com/2007/12/06/overriding-the-as-operator/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Warner Onstine Wed, 31 Dec 1969 17:00:00 +0000 urn:uuid:{a.guid}#comment-135 Very cool, just did a quick search on [Krugle](http://www.krugle.org/kse/files?query=astype&lang=groovy) (yours is the only one that showed up). So, what you're doing is creating three metaclasses for ArrayList, HashMap and String and then overriding the `asType` call through `invokeMethod`. Pretty slick. Very cool, just did a quick search on [Krugle](http://www.krugle.org/kse/files?query=astype&lang=groovy) (yours is the only one that showed up).

So, what you’re doing is creating three metaclasses for ArrayList, HashMap and String and then overriding the `asType` call through `invokeMethod`. Pretty slick.

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