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

I wouldn't suggest using split at all.

Split creates a new string, whereas when creating a collection of environment variables, you would probably want a list of maps.

Tokenize both on the initial break (&) and on the nested break (=). While most interpreters will still work, some may run the split literally, and you'll end up with a list of strings, rather than a list of maps.

def data= "test1=val1&test2=val2"
def map = [:]

map = data.tokenize("&").collectEntries {
    it.tokenize("=").with {
        [(it[0]):it[1]]
    }
}