help with oauthService and linkedin - grails

Question

I am trying to iterate over a list of parameters, in a grails controller. when I have a list, longer than one element, like this:
[D4L2DYJlSw, 8OXQWKDDvX]
the following code works fine:
def recipientId = params.email
recipientId.each { test->
System.print(test + "\n")
}
The output being:
A4L2DYJlSw
8OXQWKDDvX
But, if the list only has one item, the output is not the only item, but each letter in the list. for example, if my params list is :
A4L2DYJlSwD
using the same code as above, the output becomes:
A
4
L
2
D
Y
J
l
S
w
can anyone tell me what's going on and what I am doing wrong?
thanks
jason

Answer 1

I run at the same problem a while ago! My solution for that it was
def gameId = params.gameId
def selectedGameList = gameId.class.isArray() ? Game.getAll(gameId as List) : Game.get(gameId);
because in my case I was getting 1 or more game Ids as parameters!
What you can do is the same:
def recipientId = params.email
if(recipientId.class.isArray()){
// smtg
}else{
// smtg
}
Because what is happening here is, as soon as you call '.each' groovy transform that object in a list! and 'String AS LIST' in groovy means char_array of that string!

Answer 2

My guess would be (from what I've seen with groovy elsewhere) is that it is trying to figure out what the type for recipientId should be since you haven't given it one (and it's thus dynamic).
In your first example, groovy decided what got passed to the .each{} closure was a List<String>. The second example, as there is only one String, groovy decides the type should be String and .each{} knows how to iterate over a String too - it just converts it to a char[].
You could simply make recipientId a List<String> I think in this case.

Answer 3

You can also try like this:
def recipientId = params.email instanceof List ? params.email : [params.email]
recipientId.each { test-> System.print(test + "\n") }
It will handle both the cases ..

Answer 4

Grails provides a built-in way to guarantee that a specific parameter is a list, even when only one was submitted. This is actually the preferred way to get a list of items when the number of items may be 0, 1, or more:
def recipientId = params.list("email")
recipientId.each { test->
System.print(test + "\n")
}
The params object will wrap a single item as a list, or return the list if there is more than one.