Using groovy.sql.Sql.eachRow("show full processlist"), the class of most of the result columns used to be java.lang.String. Now (as of mysql-connector-java-5.0.8-bin.jar), the class of most of the result columns is byte array.
Setting priority to Major since this used to work correctly (using mysql-connector-java-5.0.7-bin.jar, for example).
Test case is attached. This test passes with mysql-connector-java-5.0.7-bin.jar but fails with mysql-connector-java-5.0.8-bin.jar.
http://osdir.com/ml/db.mysql.java/2006-02/msg00042.html
The workaround from Groovy is to do something like: new String(it.Command) for such fields.