Better Approach to fetch entire data from the table Groovy Sql

Question

I am trying to fetch entire data from a table and the outcome should be a comma separated string. Here is my code which is working fine.

import groovy.sql.Sql; 
import java.sql.ResultSet;

def temp=""; 
def temp1=""; 
sql = Sql.newInstance("jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:XE","username", "password", "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver") 
sql.eachRow("select * FROM employee") { 
temp1=it.toRowResult().values().join(", ") 
if(temp=="") 
            { 
             temp=temp1; 
            } 
else 
            { 
             temp=temp+"\n"+temp1 
            } 

} 

Kindly suggest if there is any better approach to handle this requirement in Groovy.

Answer 1

The keep it simple solution is the following:

import groovy.sql.Sql; 
import java.sql.ResultSet;

Sql sql = Sql.newInstance("jdbc:oracle:thin:@localhost:1521:XE","username", "password", "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver") 

StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder()

sql.eachRow("select * FROM employee") { row -> 
   builder.append( "${row.employeeId}," ) // no idea what your column names are
} 

return builder.toString()  // should trim trailing comma but I'll save that for you

You may also be able to do this with inject(), but I've not tried that on a SQL result set before.