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Article: Working with Collections in Groovy

Hey fellow SmartThings Devs! This is the first of many posts to come where we talk about Groovy and SmartThings. We have a developer call every 2 weeks and during those calls the first portion of it is an education section. Every 2 weeks I will follow up that call with a article so you can have any code examples from the call. So without any further delay… Collections in groovy. Lets first start but defining what a collection is. A collection is an object that groups multiple elements into a single unit. This can be used to store, manipulate, retrieve, and communicate data. Typically the items in a collection represent some sort of natural group. For example a telephone directory consisting of names and numbers would be considered a collection. Now that we know what a collection is, l…