Try [`flatten`][1], ie:

    list.flatten()

Or, to get the output you want:

    list = [[1,2,3], [6], [3,4,5,6]]
 
    assert list.flatten().sort() == [1,2,3,3,4,5,6,6] 


  [1]: http://groovy.codehaus.org/groovy-jdk/java/util/Collection.html#flatten%28%29

I realize that a lot of questions have been asked relating to full text search and Entity Framework, but I hope this question is a bit different.

I am using Entity Framework, Code First and need to do a full text search.  When I need to perform the full text search, I will typically have other criteria/restrictions as well - like skip the first 500 rows, or filter on another column, etc.

I see that this has been handled using table valued functions - see http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons/archive/2008/12/18/LINQ-to-SQL---Enabling-Fulltext-searching.aspx.  And this seems like the right idea.

Unfortunately, table valued functions are not supported until Entity Framework 5.0 (and even then, I believe, they are not supported for Code First).  

My real question is what are the suggestions for the best way to handle this, both for Entity Framework 4.3 and Entity Framework 5.0.  But to be specific:

1. Other than dynamic SQL (via `System.Data.Entity.DbSet.SqlQuery`, for example), are there any options available for Entity Framework 4.3?

2. If I upgrade to Entity Framework 5.0, is there a way I can use table valued functions with code first?

Thanks,
Eric

Entity Framework, Code First and Full Text Search

I&#39;m using the google example to insert a datepicker inside my app using a dialogfragment  
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/ui/controls/pickers.html

But I&#39;m not sure how to get date after set it (not java expert). Dialog and datepicker runs ok and I can log that date is correctely set but, how can i do to get a callback executed on parent activity?

This is my Dialog fragment

    public class DatePickerFragment extends DialogFragment implements
    		DatePickerDialog.OnDateSetListener {
    
    	@Override
    	public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    		// Use the current date as the default date in the picker
    		final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
    		int year = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
    		int month = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
    		int day = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
    
    		// Create a new instance of DatePickerDialog and return it
    		return new DatePickerDialog(getActivity(), this, year, month, day);
    	}
    
    	public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int month, int day) {
    		**Log.w(&quot;DatePicker&quot;,&quot;Date = &quot; + year);**
    	}
    }

...and I call dialog from my activity with...

	public void showDatePickerDialog(View v) {
		DialogFragment newFragment = new DatePickerFragment();
		newFragment.show(getSupportFragmentManager(), &quot;datePicker&quot;);
	}

What is the correct way to call a method in my parent activity instead Log.w? I suppose that is something related with passing a callback as parameter or something but most of references I found on internet are about previous versions without dialogfragments

EDIT: not sure if it&#39;s important but parent activity is declared as:

    public class EditSessionActivity extends FragmentActivity {

**SOLUTION: thanks to Lecho user this is the way to do it**

DatePickerFragmennt.class

    public class DatePickerFragment extends DialogFragment{
    
    	@Override
    	public Dialog onCreateDialog(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    		// Use the current date as the default date in the picker
    		final Calendar c = Calendar.getInstance();
    		int year = c.get(Calendar.YEAR);
    		int month = c.get(Calendar.MONTH);
    		int day = c.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_MONTH);
    
    		// Create a new instance of DatePickerDialog and return it
    		return new DatePickerDialog(getActivity(), (EditSessionActivity)getActivity(), year, month, day);
    	}
    
    }

...and parent activity EditSessionActivity.class...

    public class EditSessionActivity extends FragmentActivity implements OnDateSetListener {
    ...
    	@Override
    	public void onDateSet(DatePicker view, int year, int month, int day) {
    		//do some stuff for example write on log and update TextField on activity
    		Log.w(&quot;DatePicker&quot;,&quot;Date = &quot; + year);
    		((EditText) findViewById(R.id.tf_date)).setText(&quot;Date = &quot; + year);
    	}

Get date from datepicker using dialogfragment

    Input &gt;&gt; list = [[1,2,3], [6], [3,4,5,6]]
    
    Output &gt;&gt; [1,2,3,3,4,5,6,6] 

I want to know if there is something more straightforward than this

    l = []
    list.each{ l = l + it }
    println l

like a default groovy closure or method?

Groovy Method to combine list of lists

<pre><code class="hljs language-css">Input >> list = [[1,2,3], [6], [3,4,5,6]]

Output >> [1,2,3,3,4,5,6,6] 
</code></pre>
I want to know if there is something more straightforward than this
<pre><code class="hljs language-ini">l = []
list.each{ l = l + it }
println l
</code></pre>
like a default groovy closure or method?

&gt; **Possible Duplicate:**  
&gt; [Making a flat list out of list of lists in Python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/952914/making-a-flat-list-out-of-list-of-lists-in-python)  
&gt; [Join a list of lists together into one list in Python](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3046217/join-a-list-of-lists-together-into-one-list-in-python)  

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I have many lists which looks like 

    [&#39;it&#39;]
    [&#39;was&#39;]
    [&#39;annoying&#39;]

I want the above to look like 

    [&#39;it&#39;, &#39;was&#39;, &#39;annoying&#39;]

How do I achieve that?

How to merge multiple lists into one list in python?

This may seem an odd thing to want to do but ignoring that, is there a nice concise way of converting a `List&lt;string&gt;` to `Dictionary&lt;string, string&gt;` where each Key Value Pair in the Dictionary is just each string in the List. i.e.

    List = string1, string2, string3
    Dictionary = string1/string1, string2/string2, string3/string3

I have done plenty of searching and there are literally dozens of examples on Stackoverflow alone of doing it in the opposite direction but not this way round.

The reason for doing this is I have two third part components and changing them is out of my hands. One returns a list of email addresses as a `List&lt;string&gt;` and the other send emails where the To parameter is a `Dictionary&lt;string, string&gt;`. The key of the dictionary is the email address and the value is their real name. However, I don&#39;t know the real name but it still works if you set the real name to the email address as well. Therefore why I want to convert a List&lt;string&gt; to a `Dictionary&lt;string, string&gt;`. There are plenty of ways of doing this. A `foreach` loop on the list which adds a kvp to a dictionary. But I like terse code and wondered if there was a single line solution.


C# Convert List&lt;string&gt; to Dictionary&lt;string, string&gt;

I am curious why in Python a trailing comma in a list is valid syntax, and it seems that Python simply ignores it:

    &gt;&gt;&gt; [&#39;a&#39;,&#39;b&#39;,]
    [&#39;a&#39;, &#39;b&#39;]

It makes sense when its a tuple since `(&#39;a&#39;)` and `(&#39;a&#39;,)` are two different things, but in lists?



Why are trailing commas allowed in a list?

I have a list where each element is a 5*5 matrix. Eg


    [[1]]   
               V1          V2          V3          V4          V5      
          [1,]   0.000000   46.973700   21.453500  338.547000   10.401600 
          [2,]  43.020500    0.000000  130.652000  840.526000   56.363700 
          [3,]  12.605600  173.238000    0.000000  642.075000   19.628100 
          [4,] 217.946000  626.368000  481.329000    0.000000  642.341000 
          [5,] 217.946000  626.368000  481.329000    0.000000  642.341000 
    [[2]]   
               V1          V2          V3          V4          V5      
          [1,]   0.000000   47.973700   21.453500  338.547000   10.401600 
          [2,]  143.020500    0.000000  130.652000  840.526000   56.363700 
          [3,]  312.605600  17.238000    0.000000  642.075000   19.628100 
          [4,]  17.946000  126.368000  481.329000    0.000000  642.341000
          [5,] 217.946000  626.368000  481.329000    0.000000  642.341000  
    ...


 
How can I use an apply-like function to sum matrix [1] to [n],  and return a 5*5 matrix as a result (each element is a sum of the corresponding elements in each of the matrix in the list) ?

Sum a list of matrices

I have an array I&#39;d like to turn into a `List`, in order to modify the contents of the array.

Stack Overflow has plenty of questions/answers that address `Arrays.asList()` and how it only provides a List view of the underlying array, and how attempting to manipulate the resulting List will generally throw an `UnsupportedOperationException` as methods used to manipulate the list (e.g. `add()`, `remove()`, etc.) are not implemented by the List implementation provided by `Arrays.asList()`.

But I can&#39;t find an example of how to turn an array into a mutable List.  I suppose I can loop through the array and `put()` each value into a new List, but I&#39;m wondering if there&#39;s an interface that exists to do this for me.

Create mutable List from array?

how to compare the string which is passed as a parameter 

the following method is not working.       

     String str = &quot;saveMe&quot;

     compareString(str)

     def compareString(String str){
        def str2 = &quot;saveMe&quot;
        if(str2==${str}){
          println &quot;same&quot;
        }else{
          println &quot;not same&quot;
        }
     }    

also tried 


     String str = &quot;India&quot;

     compareString(str)

     def compareString(String str){
       def str2 = &quot;india&quot;
       if( str2 == str ) {
         println &quot;same&quot;
       }else{
         println &quot;not same&quot;
       }
     }    


Groovy - How to compare the string?

I think I&#39;ve got some funny expectations...  I want to iterate the numbers from 1 to 10. As a while loop it goes like this:

    def countMe = 1
    while (countMe&lt;11) {
      println countMe
      countMe++
    }

I was expecting that the following would do this also:

    [1..10].each { println it }

But it actually prints the `IntRange`, not each `Integer` in the range.  What is the (syntactically) closest way to my `[x..y].each{}` fantasy to get each of a list of numbers?

calling .each{} on IntRange returns the range not each integer

I am using `groovy` to create a file like `&quot;../A/B/file.txt&quot;`. To do this, I have created a `service` and pass the `file path` to be created as an `argument`. This service is then used by a `Job`. The `Job` will do the logic in creating the file in the specified directory. I have manually created the &quot;A&quot; directory.

How will I create the &quot;B&quot; directory and the file.txt inside the &quot;A&quot; directory through codes to create it automatically?

I need also to check if directories &quot;B&quot; and &quot;A&quot; exists before creating the file.

How to check if a directory containing a file exist?

Imagine I have this structure:

    class Foo {
       String bar
    }

Now imagine I have several instance of `Foo` whose `bar` value is `baz_1`, `baz_2`, and `zab_3`.

I want to write a collect statement that only collects the `bar` values which contain the text `baz`. I cannot get it to work, but it would look something like this:

    def barsOfAllFoos = Foo.getAll().bar
    assert barsOfAllFoos == [ &#39;baz_1&#39;, &#39;baz_2&#39;, &#39;zab_3&#39; ]
    def barsWithBaz = barsOfAllFoos.collect{ if( it.contains( &quot;baz&quot; ) { it } ) } // What is the correct syntax for this?
    assert barsWithBaz == [ &#39;baz_1&#39;, &#39;baz_2&#39; ]

How to write a conditional collect in groovy?

I want to use either a value of expected property or a specified default.
How to achieve this in groovy?

Let&#39;s look at the example:

    def printName(object) {
       //if object has initialized property &#39;name&#39; - print &#39;name&#39;, otherwise print ToString
       if (object&lt;some code here&gt;name &amp;&amp; object.name) {
          print object.name
       } else {
          print object
       }
    }

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