Grails createCriteria on abstract domain - grails

Question

I am quite curious how one would use the criteria builder to access fields of an inherited class.
Let's assume we have the following class:
class A {
String fieldOne
String fieldTwo
static hasMany = [childs: AbstractChildClass]
}
and the abstract child class would look like this:
abstract class AbstractChildClass {
Integer valueOne
Integer valueTwo
A a
static mapping
tablePerHierarchy false
}
}
of course there are several extending classes such as:
class ExtendingClassOne extends AbstractChildClass {
DesiredObject desiredObject
static mapping = {
tablePerHierarchy false
}
}
let's also assume there is the class DesiredObject which looks like this:
class DesiredObject {
String infoA
String infoB
}
The question is how one would get the fields infoA and infoB by creating a criteria for class A. My approach so far is this:
A.createCriteria().list {
childs {
desiredObject {
ilike('infoA', '%something%')
}
}
}
This of course does not work because in the table ExtendingClassOne is only the id of the desiredObject and I have no clue how to join the object with the criteria builder to get its fields.
Thank you for reading.
Marco

Answer 1

don't expect 100% match between your domain model and the DB schema it's related to.
In your case the polymorphism would work only with tablePerHierarchy true for AbstractChildClass.
If you do want to stick with tablePerHierarchy false, you can define your class like:
class A {
static hasMany = [ childrenOne:ExtendingClassOne, childrenTwo:ExtendingClassTwo ]
}
thus your query would be as simple as:
A.withCriteria{
for( String c in [ 'childrenOne', 'childrenTwo' ] ){
"$c"{
desiredObject {
ilike('infoA', '%something%')
}
}
}
}