Best way to code this, string to map conversion in Groovy

Question

I have a string like

def data = \"session=234567893egshdjchasd&userId=12345673456&timeOut=1800000\"

I want to convert it to a map

Answer 1

If you are in a grails controller, then this is nice and simple:

GrailsParameterMap map = new GrailsParameterMap(request)

http://grails.org/doc/latest/api/org/codehaus/groovy/grails/web/servlet/mvc/GrailsParameterMap.html