HowTo --> GroovyShell().evaluate("['item1', 'item2', 'item3']")

[John Dee]

Would someone happen to know how to take a List or Map defined as a String (i.e. read off an InputStream) and assign the contents of that string to a List/Map object.

Something like GroovyShell().evaluate("[name:'nameVale', phone:'phoneVal', zip:'zipVal']"), but this does not work. I get the following error message:

No signature of method: com....GroovyShell() is applicable for argument types: () values: []

Thanks!

[Craig Treptow]

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