If I create a Grails app called a-b-c-d, doing a grails create-domain-class User will result in Grails creating a class User in the sub-directory grails-app/domain/a/b/c/d, giving it the package a.b.c.d. How do I prevent Grails from creating these package names?
You should definitely use packages, but you can customize the default package by changing the value of grails.project.groupId in Config.groovy. The default value is appName which is your application name, but you can change it to any value package, e.g. 'com.foo.bar'.
In addition you can specify the package when running a create script, and if you do want to create classes in the default package, you can use this syntax:
grails create-service .Person
and it won't use a package.
I have no idea, this sounds like a bug. There are two obvious workarounds
change your app to have a name without dashes
don't use the Grails commands create-domain-class, create-controller-class, etc. I never use these commands because they don't actually do anything other than creating the class (and a corresponding empty test class). Personally, I find it easier just to create the class myself than to run the Grails command
You can specify the package when you call the cli command...
grails create-domain-class your.package.name.User
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I created a Grails plugin and created a domain class in it called Config:
package com.company.common
class Config {
String defaultTimeZone
String defaultLanguage
}
In another Grails project, I'm including the plugin and I have this line in Bootstrap.groovy:
import com.company.common.Config
Every time I try to run the project though, I get this error:
C:\Code\grails-app\conf\BootStrap.groovy: 4: unable to resolve class com.company.common.Config
It works if I have the Config domain class in the same Grails project. It also seems to work if I rename it to something like ProjectConfig in the plugin project.
Does anyone know why I can't reference a domain class called Config in another project?
P.S. All the other domain classes in the plugin project can be accessed from the main Grails project, only the Config class gives me problems.
Grails plugins have specific files that are removed when packaging the plugin (so you can use them for testing). You can find the list here Grails Plugins #Creating and Installing Plugins. For convenience, here is the list:
grails-app/conf/BootStrap.groovy
grails-app/conf/BuildConfig.groovy (although it is used to generate dependencies.groovy)
grails-app/conf/Config.groovy
grails-app/conf/DataSource.groovy (and any other *DataSource.groovy)
grails-app/conf/UrlMappings.groovy
grails-app/conf/spring/resources.groovy
Everything within /web-app/WEB-INF
Everything within /web-app/plugins/**
Everything within /test/**
SCM management files within **/.svn/** and **/CVS/**
While this list does not include Config.groovy files in domain class folders, it might be caught by this. Would be worth checking if the Config.groovy file gets carried over to the packaged plugin, or if you can live with renaming the file, that would work as well.
I am new to Grails and I have inherited an existing application. I have a big file message.properties that I would like to prune, in order to remove keys that are no longer used.
In Django there is a command makemessages that goes through all codebase and collects all strings that need translation, adding them to the messages file and commenting out the entries that no longer exist. Is there a similar tool for Grails? If it helps, the project is based on verions 1.3.9.
There is no such tool, but you can create your own gant script. Take a look at getting a list of all i18n properties used in a Grails application and process this list.
I am working with the Grails Authentication plugin and trying to add a domain class from the plugin into my GORM. I am able to use plugin objects in my application when importing them with, "import com.grailsrocks.authentication.AuthenticationUser", but getting "unable to resolve class" exception when trying to access my application objects from the plugin (I am trying to use the domain class "User" and my import command is "import blap.User" - package name is blap). Both import commands work from the shell, and the import statement is not triggering an error in STS.
I am new to grails, so I'm probably doing something very wrong. But, at this point I am running out of ideas, so any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Vitaly
While I haven't used the Grails Authentication plugin before, I don't think you should be modifying the plugin classes. In general, you should extend the plugin class you want to modify in your application and use your application class instead.
Actually, from reading the docs, it looks like you should use the event handling to modify the plugin behavior.
From the plugin docs:
The default AuthenticationUser domain class is minimal. If you want to change constraints or add fields (you may consider using a separate class instead for extra user data) you just redefine the onNewUserObject event and return your own instance of a domain class or similar wrapper around another authentication database such as LDAP
In my grails 1.3.7 project, I have put all of my classes in com.mycompany.myapp, as you do. So this goes for services, controllers, domain classes. I have a filter that goes in its own package. My app works fine.
However, when I run grails doc, grails decides to create two pages for every class:
one in its right comp.mycompany.myapp package that has all the right Groovy Doc
the other takes all the above classes and pretends as if those also live in the default package.
So, target/docs contains two directories: 'DefaultPackage' and 'com', with DefaultPackage holding a copy of everything that lives under com/
Consequently, my groovy doc looks messy because there is two copies for each class.
How can I solve this?
It has been documented as a bug at GRAILS-6605. There is no workaround listed there for the bug.
I too faced the same issue and so created a plugin "Grails Runtime Docs" ( http://grails.org/plugin/grails-runtime-docs ) that solves this issue and generates both Java and groovy docs properly only 1 copy per class. It's grails aware and categorizes the classes into Controllers, Commands, Domains, Services and Tag Libraries. The groovy documentation is actually generated from runtime so as to include the dynamic methods also, adding "Dynamic Method Summary" & "Dynamic Method Detail" in the generated html docs, that provide their source information. Hope you find it useful.
I am developing a Grails application (with Grails 1.3.7). In service layer, I did not use the command 'create-service' to create my service but do it manually.
As the result, my service was not auto initialize in controllers and other services, and it did not handle transaction.
But I do not know where is the differences from create service by command with by manual? Because I do not see any configuration file which figure out this? (I mean in traditional Spring, we always have some configuration files which specify all beans in applications, but in Grails is not).
I want to fix this issue and commit to SVN server my fix, but I do not want to delete the old service and commit the new one which is created by Grails command. So could you please help me:
1. explain what is the differences from create service by command with by manual?
2. how to change the the service created by manual to service created by command without replacing the old one?
Thank you so much!
explain what is the differences from create service by command with by manual?
Assuming you put your service in grails-app/services and followed the naming convention using a postfix of Service The only difference is that you get a nice template that looks like
class SomeService {
boolean transactional = true
def someMethod() {
}
}
and it automatically creates a unit test with the name SomeServiceTests. That is it. BTW transactional defaults to true if you do not include it.
how to change the the service created by manual to service created by command without replacing the old one?
There is nothing to do assuming you followed the conventions. If you did follow the conventions and you are still experience problems please update your question with more details such as how are you trying to use your service and a example of your service.
As long as you put your class in the grails-app/services directory, it should act just like any other service (and work as a spring bean).
If you put it in src/java or src/groovy, it's not considered a service (and not loaded as a service artefact by grails). It could still be a spring bean, but you'd have to manually add it to the resources.groovy file.
Also note that the Grails autowiring of the beans must be exact, so if you have MyService and you want to use it in the controller, make sure you have "def myService" or "MyService myService." If you would prefer different names of your member variables, you can also use the Spring Autowired annotation directly, though I've only tried autowiring grails types (e.g. a grails service) autowired to a bean I declared in resources.xml
If you put services, or any other bean in the resources.xml or resources.groovy files, they will also be autowired intro controllers, other services, etc.
It's best to think of Grails as "rapid Spring", so the autowiring, transactions, etc all are backed by Spring configuration and such.