I was amazed the way groovy's Trait allows us to extend behavior of any object.
For example:
Output: Parent: Hello Groovy
HelloChild is a final class ,I want to understand the way groovy implements this feature. According to my understanding when groovy deals with 'as' clause
it creates a proxy which extends the instance class (HelloChild) & implements the Trait. But since HelloChild is a final class i am not sure of how it works.
May be through some byte code instrumentation ? Not sure. Would be great if any ranchers knows of the internals and share their knowledge.
I don't think Groovy is extending the class. This DZone article includes the phrase "A class can be composed out of multiple traits". Which implies that the proxy is wrapping and not subclassing. Not sure though.