Filtering in Groovy not working properly

[herrlegno]

Describe the bug
I'm following the steps in https://rethinkdb.com/blog/alt-jvm-driver/, and the "fellowship" query do not give me anything.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Create a table named fellowship
2. Insert some characters
3. Try to query with a lambda filter

Expected behavior
I expect it to filter and give me the desired results.

Screenshots

System info

• OS: Docker
• RethinkDB:
  • Server: 2.4.0-8-g07da06-dirty
  • Driver: 2.4.4
• JDK: java-8-openjdk-amd64

[herrlegno]

For anyone looking at this, the workaround I used is: