Audit Logging skips logging ID of tables with composite-primary key - grails

Question

I'm implementing Audit Logging 1.1 Grails Plugin to track the changes to my domain classes midway of our project implementation. These are an example domain object for our scenario:
Students need to answer questions. A question can ask for a single or a multiple answers.
class Question {
static auditable = true
Integer id
String content
static hasMany = [
answers: Answer
]
}
class Student {
static auditable = true
Integer id
String name
static hasMany = [
answers: Answer
]
}
class Answer implements Serializable {
static auditable = true
Integer sequence
String value
static belongsTo = [
student: Student,
question: Question
]
static mapping = {
id composite: ["student", "question", "sequence"]
}
}
Every time I perform insert/updates to any of these tables, the plugin fires an event and logs it to my AuditLog table. All DML are successfully logged as expected except for the Answer table. The problem is that the PERSISTED_OBJECT_ID is always null:
+----+---+------------+------------+---------------------+---------------+-----------+-----------+
| ID | … | CLASS_NAME | EVENT_NAME | PERSISTED_OBJECT_ID | PROPERTY_NAME | OLD_VALUE | NEW_VALUE |
+----+---+------------+------------+---------------------+---------------+-----------+-----------+
| … | … | Answer | UPDATE | | value | A | B |
| … | … | Answer | UPDATE | | value | B | A |
+----+---+------------+------------+---------------------+---------------+-----------+-----------+
I tried to include the logIds = true config but it still not persisting. Without that column, I cannot identify which Answer is updated by whom. I'm expecting that this would be the case of all the composite primary keys domain classes that I have.
What can I do to fix this?

Answer 1

I had the same issue with 2.x plugin version when my new/oldValue was domain class object. I decided it by overriding toString() method for domain which was saved as value. Try to override toString() for your "student" and "question" domain.
Update:
I didn't use composite key as Id in my project (it seems it's why your persistedObjectId is empty) and also I used 2.x version of plugin. My decision for problems which looks like your, may be it will help you :
I have domains:
class Manager {
}
class Customer {
}
class Item {
Manager manager
Customer customer
Item parentItem
BigDecimal qtyOnHand
}
I log changes of qtyOnHand and parentItem. With first everything is easy. For second (as I remember default value will be smth like this: "[id:15]Object123402"):
1. overrided toString()
public String toString() {
id
}
2. in configurations: logIds = false => plugin writes only id of object
Also I log managerId and customerId using "uri" for it (for simple it will be):
def getAuditLogUri = {
managerId as String
}
We can write all in uri and than past in beforeInsert:
class Item {
......
def getAuditLogUri = {
getAuditFields()
}
private Map getAuditFields() {
return [managerId: manager.id, customerId: customer.id]
}
....
}
class AuditLog{
String actor
String uri
String className
String persistedObjectId
String propertyName
String oldValue
String newValue
String managerId
String customerId
.....
def beforeInsert() {
getAdditionalFields(uri)
}
private void getAdditionalFields(String fields) {
Map map = Eval.me(fields)
managerId = map.managerId
customerId = map.customerId
}
Everything works in my project, I think the it will work the same for persistedObjectId-field