Grails data binding to command object with maps - convert key to number - grails

I have a Grails command object with a list of maps. The map key is intended to be a numeric domain object ID.
class MyCommand {
def grid = [].withDefault { [:] }
}
Data binding to the list/map is working in general because of the dynamic list expansion.
However, in the POST, the map keys are being bound as Strings and I want them to be Longs, as they are when the form is initially populated. I want foo[123] in my map, not foo['123'].
Alternatively I would be satisfied if the [] operators found the correct value given a numeric ID key to look up. In other words, if I could get foo[123] to return the same value as foo['123'], that would work too.
Any way to get this to work the way I want to? Maybe strongly type the map?
Or a better approach?

You can inject the property into the map to convert a String key to Long. For example:
def myMap = [:] << ['1': "name"] << ['Test': "bobo"]
def result = myMap.inject([:]){map, v ->
def newKey = v.key.isNumber() ? v.key.toLong() : v.key
map[newKey] = v.value
map
}
assert myMap['1'] == 'name'
assert result[1L] == 'name'
assert result['Test'] == 'bobo'

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BeanItemContainer unique property values

I am using BeanItemContainer for my Grid. I want to get a unique list of one of the properties. For instance, let's say my beans are as follows:
class Fun {
String game;
String rules;
String winner;
}
This would display as 3 columns in my Grid. I want to get a list of all the unique values for the game property. How would I do this? I have the same property id in multiple different bean classes, so it would be nice to get the values directly from the BeanItemContainer. I am trying to avoid building this unique list before loading the data into the Grid, since doing it that way would require me to handle it on a case by case basis.
My ultimate goal is to create a dropdown in a filter based on those unique values.
There isn't any helper for directly doing what you ask for. Instead, you'd have to do it "manually" by iterating through all items and collecting the property values to a Set which would then at the end contain all unique values.
Alternatively, if the data originates from a database, then you could maybe retrieve the unique values from there by using e.g. the DISTINCT keyword in SQL.
In case anyone is curious, this is how I applied Leif's suggestion. When they enter the dropdown, I cycle through all the item ids for the property id of the column I care about, and then fill values based on that property id. Since the same Grid can be loaded with new data, I also have to "clear" this list of item ids.
filterField.addFocusListener(focus->{
if(!(filterField.getItemIds() instanceof Collection) ||
filterField.getItemIds().isEmpty())
{
BeanItemContainer<T> container = getGridContainer();
if( container instanceof BeanItemContainer && getFilterPropertyId() instanceof Object )
{
List<T> itemIds = container.getItemIds();
Set<String> distinctValues = new HashSet<String>();
for(T itemId : itemIds)
{
Property<?> prop = container.getContainerProperty(itemId, getFilterPropertyId());
String value = null;
if( prop.getValue() instanceof String )
{
value = (String) prop.getValue();
}
if(value instanceof String && !value.trim().isEmpty())
distinctValues.add(value);
}
filterField.addItems(distinctValues);
}
}
});
Minor point: the filterField variable is using the ComboBoxMultiselect add-on for Vaadin 7. Hopefully, when I finally have time to convert to Vaadin 14+, I can do something similar there.

Need help improving how objects are saved from params in my app

So, I have a form that collects a bunch of radio selections and checkboxes and I need to build a series of objects based on what gets returned, which might look like this:
[thingid:1, 13:30,14:33, 11:26, 12:78, action:save, controller:userThing]
One object is created from the thingid, and the integer value pairs are ids of 2 other objects that are used to create n additional objects, so right now I'm looping through the params with an each() and filtering the non integer pairs with a long if expression, and then saving the object I need :
params.each {
key, value ->
if (key=="submit" | key=="action" | key=="thingid" | key=="controller"){}else{
def prop = ThingProperty.find(){
id == key
}
def level = ThingLevel.find(){
id == value
}
new UserThingScore(userthing: userthing,thingproperty: prop ,thinglevel: level).save(flush:true)
}
}
It works, in that it creates all the necessary objects correctly, but this just seems ridiculous to me, and I know there must be a better way... is there someway I can group form elements so they get returned like this?:
[thingid:1, integerpairs:[13:30,14:33, 11:26, 12:78],action:save,controller:userThing]
An alternative might be:
def userThingList = params.keySet().grep( Integer ).collect { it ->
new UserThingScore( userthing: userthing,
thingproperty: ThingProperty.get( it ),
thinglevel: ThingLevel.get( params[ it ] ) )
}
userThingList*.save()

gorm projection and loss of metainformation

When using projection on the properties, the result is returned as the list with the elements in the same sequence as that defined in the projections block. At the same time the property names are missing from the list and that is really disadvantageous to the developer as the result would be passed along and the caller needs to know what value belongs to which property. Is there a way to return a map from the Criteria query with property name as the key to the value?
so, the following code:
def c = Trade.createCriteria()
def remicTrades = c.list {
projections {
property('title', 'title')
property('author.name', 'author')
}
def now = new Date()
between('publishedDate', now-365, now)
}
This returns:
[['book1', 'author1']['book2', 'author2']]
Instead I would like it to return:
[[book:'book1', author:'author1'][book:'book2', author:'author2']]
I know I can arrange this way after getting the result but I earnestly feel that the property alias should have been used by the criteria to return a list of map that mimics the result of the SQL query and not a bland list.
Duplicate: Grails queries with criteria: how to get back a map with column?
And the corresponding answer (and solution): https://stackoverflow.com/a/16409512/1263227
Use resultTransformer.
import org.hibernate.criterion.CriteriaSpecification
Trade.withCriteria {
resultTransformer(CriteriaSpecification.ALIAS_TO_ENTITY_MAP)
projections {
property('title', 'title')
property('author.name', 'author')
}
def now = new Date()
between('publishedDate', now-365, now)
}
Agree with your question reasoning, this really should be part of the core GORM solution. That said, here's my workaround;
def props = ['name','phone']
def query = Person.where {}.projections {
props.each{
property(it)
}
}
def people = query.list().collect{ row->
def cols = [:]
row.eachWithIndex{colVal, ind->
cols[props[ind]] = colVal
}
cols
}
println people // shows [['name':'John','phone':'5551212'],['name':'Magdalena','phone':'5552423']]

How would I find the text of a node that has a specific value for an attribute in groovy?

I'm using XMLSlurper. My code is below (but does not work). The problem is that it fails when it hits a node that does not have the attribute "id". How do I account for this?
//Parse XML
def page = new XmlSlurper(false,false).parseText(xml)
//Now save the value of the proper node to a property (this fails)
properties[ "finalValue" ] = page.find {
it.attributes().find { it.key.equalsIgnoreCase( 'id' ) }.value == "myNode"
};
I just need to account for nodes without "id" attribute so it doesn't fail. How do I do that?
You could alternatively use the GPath notation, and check if "#id" is empty first.
The following code snippet finds the last element (since the id attribute is "B" and the value is also "bizz", it prints out "bizz" and "B").
def xml = new XmlSlurper().parseText("<foo><bar>bizz</bar><bar id='A'>bazz</bar><bar id='B'>bizz</bar></foo>")
def x = xml.children().find{!it.#id.isEmpty() && it.text()=="bizz"}
println x
println x.#id
Apprently I can get it to work when I simply use depthFirst. So:
properties[ "finalValue" ] = page.depthFirst().find {
it.attributes().find { it.key.equalsIgnoreCase( 'id' ) }.value == "myNode"
};

help with oauthService and linkedin

I am trying to iterate over a list of parameters, in a grails controller. when I have a list, longer than one element, like this:
[D4L2DYJlSw, 8OXQWKDDvX]
the following code works fine:
def recipientId = params.email
recipientId.each { test->
System.print(test + "\n")
}
The output being:
A4L2DYJlSw
8OXQWKDDvX
But, if the list only has one item, the output is not the only item, but each letter in the list. for example, if my params list is :
A4L2DYJlSwD
using the same code as above, the output becomes:
A
4
L
2
D
Y
J
l
S
w
can anyone tell me what's going on and what I am doing wrong?
thanks
jason
I run at the same problem a while ago! My solution for that it was
def gameId = params.gameId
def selectedGameList = gameId.class.isArray() ? Game.getAll(gameId as List) : Game.get(gameId);
because in my case I was getting 1 or more game Ids as parameters!
What you can do is the same:
def recipientId = params.email
if(recipientId.class.isArray()){
// smtg
}else{
// smtg
}
Because what is happening here is, as soon as you call '.each' groovy transform that object in a list! and 'String AS LIST' in groovy means char_array of that string!
My guess would be (from what I've seen with groovy elsewhere) is that it is trying to figure out what the type for recipientId should be since you haven't given it one (and it's thus dynamic).
In your first example, groovy decided what got passed to the .each{} closure was a List<String>. The second example, as there is only one String, groovy decides the type should be String and .each{} knows how to iterate over a String too - it just converts it to a char[].
You could simply make recipientId a List<String> I think in this case.
You can also try like this:
def recipientId = params.email instanceof List ? params.email : [params.email]
recipientId.each { test-> System.print(test + "\n") }
It will handle both the cases ..
Grails provides a built-in way to guarantee that a specific parameter is a list, even when only one was submitted. This is actually the preferred way to get a list of items when the number of items may be 0, 1, or more:
def recipientId = params.list("email")
recipientId.each { test->
System.print(test + "\n")
}
The params object will wrap a single item as a list, or return the list if there is more than one.

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