GROOVY-11541: Sql wildcard params

[seregamorph]

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/GROOVY-11541
groovy.sql.Sql declares several methods with SQL statement and parameters like this

public boolean execute(String sql, List<Object> params) throws SLQException {

This declaration has one major drawback: it's not possible to pass as an argument the List which is not exactly List<Object>, e.g. List<Integer>.

This List is only iterated, hence using wildcard here is safe. Also changing the type to wildcard as receiving argument should be binary compatible.

Suggested method signature (example; address all such methods of Sql class):

public boolean execute(String sql, List<?> params) throws SLQException {

Additional notes:

• there are few methods that return List<Object>, e.g. SqlWithParams.getParams() - in this case the Object generic should be preserved.
• For reference: pretty similar problem solved for cassandra-java-driver apache/cassandra-java-driver@be07a77

[codecov-commenter]

Codecov Report

✅ All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests.
✅ Project coverage is 68.8300%. Comparing base (3d97ab7) to head (fcfe772).
⚠️ Report is 1010 commits behind head on master.

Additional details and impacted files

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  Hits            77875      77875           
- Misses          28724      28725    +1     
+ Partials         6542       6541    -1     

Files with missing lines	Coverage Δ
...jects/groovy-sql/src/main/java/groovy/sql/Sql.java	64.6637% <100.0000%> (ø)
...vy-sql/src/main/java/groovy/sql/SqlWithParams.java	100.0000% <100.0000%> (ø)

... and 4 files with indirect coverage changes

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[seregamorph]

The build is broken, but doesn't seem related as master branch is also broken: https://github.com/apache/groovy/actions/runs/12586627965/job/35088979045

[daniellansun]

LGTM.

No worries. JDK 13 and 18 builds fail due to timeout unaccountably someday, it is tricky for us too.

[daniellansun]

Merged. Thanks!