Share a resources.groovy across grails applications - grails

Similar to this question: Share config between two grails apps that share a common plugin
But regarding resources.groovy instead of Config.groovy.
Is there some way to have a resources.groovy in a plugin that is then depended on from multiple apps so they have those resources available and autowired?

I'm not sure of a convenient way to do this, but since the purpose of resources.groovy is to configure Spring beans you could create a plugin and configure the beans from the plugin's doWithSpring closure in its plugin descriptor. This would additionally benefit from versioning, dependency management, etc.

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What is the corresponding artifact for Config.groovy of grails 2.x in grails 3.x?

I want to migrate an application from grails 2.4.4 to grails 3.3.9.
As the structure of the conf directory in grails 2.x is completely different from 3.x, there is no config.groovy in 3.x anymore. In config.groovy of 2.x I used to define lists of constants for my select boxes like:
metals=['au','ag','pl']
and I accessed them via
static List getMetals() {
grails.util.Holders.config.metals
}
in my groovy code.
What is the corresponding way in 3.x?
I would start by checking out the upgrade guides:
http://docs.grails.org/latest/guide/upgrading.html
http://docs.grails.org/3.2.0/guide/upgrading.html#upgrading2x
config.groovy, by default becomes application.yml, but you can convert that to application.groovy, and there is a script in the external config plugin that will help with that:
http://plugins.grails.org/plugin/grails/external-config
In general it is conserdered back practice to use the holders, it would be better to use either an injected bean/service
GrailsApplication grailsApplication
grailsApplication.config.etc
Or wire in a bean using resources. The only reason to use holders is in another object that is outside of grails, that for some reason, you can't wire up as a bean. In that cases there is now a Holders class, that you can get the config from. Here's some other ways to get at the config from an OCI blog:
http://grailsblog.objectcomputing.com/posts/2016/08/31/retrieving-config-values.html

Grails Plugin Config Excluded

I have some values from a plugin's Config.groovy that I wanted incorporated as part of the main Application. However, it seems that they're excluded, according to the docs.
How can I define values in a plugin and have those values propagated to the main app?
You have a few options:
define a configuration file that is not excluded in src/groovy. eg. MyPluginConfig.groovy and merge it in in the doWithSpring and onConfigChange closures in your plugin's definition class. This method is outlined in this blog post.
use your plugin's _Install.groovy script to manually write your configuration into the host application's Config.groovy. This method is evident in the S2Quickstart script from the Spring Security Core plugin.
Use the Plugin Config plugin. This plugin handles these situations very nicely.

What is a Grails Plugin? What does it mean to Install a Plugin?

I used Grails recently, and added Grails plugin for JQuery, but I don't think it did anything more than just copy some jQuery files over.
So far, I have seen info only on 'how to install and use' plugins...but I can't find anything that describes the concept of a plugin.
Can somebody please tell me, what is a Grails Plugin? And what does it mean to 'Install' a plugin?
A Grails plugin is (or should be) a self-contained bundle of functionality that can be installed into a Grails application. When a Grails plugin is installed, it can do any of the following:
define additional Spring beans
modify the generated web.xml
add new methods to the application's artefacts (controllers, domain classes, services, etc.)
provide new tag libraries
make additional resources and classes available to the application
provide new Grails commands
For example, when you install the JQuery plugin
the JQuery JavaScript files are added to the application
a new Grails tag <jq:jquery> is added to the application
a new Grails command grails install-plugin jquery is added to the application
When you install a Grails plugin, that plugin's functionality is made available to the installing application. However, the plugin itself is not actually copied into the application, only the plugin name and version is added to the application's application.properties file. The plugin itself is downloaded to $HOME/.grails and the application loads it from there.
The structure of a Grails plugin project is identical to that of a Grails application, with the exception of a configuration file (known as a plugin descriptor) that is included in a plugin's root directory.
Well, a Grails plugin is some piece of software that extends the frameworks funcionalities in some manner. Generally, installing a plugin in Grails means copying it to your Grails folder, so projects can refer to it and Grails will know where to find it.
Grails plugins have this folder structure:
grails-app
controllers
domain
taglib
service
etc
lib
src
java
groovy
web-app
js
css
So anything it has there will also be available to the application that uses it. For example, the Searchable plugin has a service class which you can use to perform advanced searchs in your own domain classes .
The jQuery plugin you mentioned has the jQuery .js file, and a tag to include that file.
For information on creating plugins, see http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/12.%20Plug-ins.html
A plugin is just a set of functionality around a desired purpose. So the Spring Security plugin provides a way to lock down your app, assign roles to users, restrict access, whatever. The Searchable plugin allows you to integrate advanced searching into your app. There are lots of plugins
The point is to provide useful functionality so that you don't have to implement hard things yourself. Someone did something useful, and they wanted to contribute back to the community, so they organized their functionality and made it available.
A plugin is code and configuration, like any functionality you would implement yourself.
There is some documentation here: http://grails.org/doc/latest/ref/Plug-ins/Usage.html

What is the best way to work with services in grails

I've just started a project on grails and didn't find how to work with services using dependency injection and interfaces.
As I've seen so far in the documentation when you create a service - it's just a groovy class which can be auto wired wherever I want.
But what if I want to have an interface for a service and to inject one of its implementation like I did in Java using spring?
eg I want to have a service interface. let it be MyService.groovy
it will have 1 method doSmth()
and I'll have 2 implementations - MyServiceImpl1.groovy and MyServiceImpl2.groovy
I have a quartz job doing something like this
def myService
myService.doSmth()
Where should I put groovy interface (folder)? Shall I create a package for that in src/groovy?
How to configure resources.groovy to wire "myService" with 1 of the service implementation?
Any thoughts are appreciated
Thanks in advance!
Running grails create-service [name] is a convenient way of get a service deployed, but it doesn't create an interface with implementation, as you're looking for.
I'd suggest putting your interface and implementations into src/groovy and using resources.groovy to wire them up (you can access the environment, if you want to deploy a different implementation by environment).
Take a look at the 'Using the Spring DSL' section in chapter 14.2 of the user guide for how to wire up your service in resources.groovy. You also have the option of using resources.xml if you want to wire with XML, but I'd definitely recommend the Groovy DSL.
Just run grails create-service [name]

Is it possible to add Grails MVC classes at deployment time?

I'm writing a Grails app which I'd like 3rd parties to augment at runtime. Ideally they would be able to add a JAR/WAR to the webapp directory which contains new domain, controller and service classes, new views, and other content.
Is there a simple way to do this within grails? Would it be simplest to create a startup script which copies the new classes etc. into the relevant directories and then updates grails.xml and web.xml?
You will be able to do this in version 2 of grails in which plugins will be also OSGI plugins http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS/fixforversion/15421
It seems that the Grails plugins will actually fit quite well for this: http://www.grails.org/Understanding+Plugins
A plugin can do just about anything... One thing a plugin cannot do though is modify the web-app/WEB-INF/web.xml or web-app/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml files. A plugin can participate in web.xml generation, but not modify the file or provide a replacement. A plugin can NEVER change the applicationContext.xml file, but can provide runtime bean definitions

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