I was trying to use fixtures plugin for initial (seed)data loading.. the documentation seems very short.. can anyone give some details about
1. where to define all the data, and in which order
2. how to give complex data type (joda time, currency etc)
3. how to load the fixure data only once for the initial data
thanks,
Grails Fixtures plugin documentation is now quite ok, check it here
After installing the plugin you will have a new folder in your Grails App directory called "fixtures". There you may store *.groovy files with the given test data written in the documented DSL.
Example init.groovy file:
// Import needed classes
// Defining some initial testdata
fixture {
cat0(Category, name: "My category 1")
cat1(Category, name: "My category 2")
}
The fixture definitions have to be in the fixture closure.
Edit
Even though the original link to the documentation is not online anymore, the content can still be found in its repository.
Related
I have a yeoman generator with some subgenerators.
I know I can pass options from the parent- to the subgenerators when calling composeWith(...).
But how can I pass the answers I get from prompting? The are not available at the point when composeWith is called.
For example I prompt in the generator for an app name and want to provide this to all the subgenerators as options?
One way to do this is using the built-in config.
In the "parent" generator:
configuring(){
this.log('Saving configuration in .yo-rc.json')
const answers = this.answers.answers()
for(const key in answers){
this.config.set(key, answers[key])
}
this.config.save()
}
In the "child" generator, to populate templates:
const templateData = {
...this.config.getAll(),
...
}
this.fs.copyTpl(
this.templatePath(),
this.destinationPath(),
templateData
)
This should be simple enough to change for your use case, eg perhaps you'd want this.config.get(something) in the child generator.
Just note this won't work across different generators; only between a generator and its own sub-generators:
The .yo-rc.json file is a JSON file where configuration objects from multiple generators are stored. Each generator configuration is namespaced to ensure no naming conflicts occur between generators.
This also means each generator configuration is sandboxed and can only be shared between sub-generators. You cannot share configurations between different generators using the storage API. Use options and arguments during invocation to share data between different generators.
Oh, found in the related questions that I could call the subgenerator after prompting, instead of the initialize-method (as in the quite outdated tutorial)
I read somewhere that if I start a table with |script| on a line by itself, without specifying a fixture name, FitNesse / Slim will reuse the fixture from the previous script table:
|script|my script table fixture|
|check|do something|ok|
Then something else happens, but later I want to keep using that fixture:
|script|
|check|do something else|ok|
But now I can't find where this is documented. It's not mentioned on the documentation page for script tables. Where is this feature actually described?
It is on the page you linked, although not too clearly:
If there is no actor specified then the previous script table's actor on this test page will be used.
I followed this tutorial to create a custom alfresco activiti workflow: http://ecmarchitect.com/alfresco-developer-series-tutorials/workflow/tutorial/tutorial.html
I tried to externalize the contained strings by creating .properties files and made them known in the xyz-context.xml. While this is working I face a problem with changing the title of a worfklow task.
I use the following sampleWorkflow.properties file:
sampleWf.task.confirmTask.title=Confirm this, with a title which is different than the task name
sampleWf.task.confirmTask.description=Confirm please
The bpmn-snippet for this tasks, is configured like this:
<userTask id="confirmTask" name="Confirm" activiti:assignee="${bpm_assignee.properties.userName}" activiti:formKey="samplewf:customTypeTask"></userTask>
My question is
Why only the description of the workflow tasks change, but not the title?
The above localization works, when I don't use the task ID but it's property like this:
sampleWf.task.samplewf_customTypeTask.title=This changes the title
If this the only possibility I'd need to deploy a lot of custom types just for naming purposes. Can't I reuse types across workflows and just change the title (name) by this configuration?
Please refer to this link in order to have a better idea on how strings could be localized in a workflow in Alfresco :
<workflow_prefix>_<workflow_name>.workflow.[title|description]
<workflow_prefix>_<workflow_name>.node.<node_name>.[title|description]
<workflow_prefix>_<workflow_name>.node.<node_name>.transition.<transition_name>.[title|description]
<workflow_prefix>_<workflow_name>.task.<task_prefix>_<task_name>.[title|description]
where:
<workflow_prefix> is the workflow model namespace prefix
<workflow_name> is the workflow name
<node_name> is the name of a node within the workflow
<transition_name> is the name of a node transition within the workflow
<task_prefix> is the task namespace prefix
<task_name> is the task name
<transition_name> is the workflow transition name
Which suggests you should be putting something like :
sampleWf_<workflow-name>.task.sampleWf_confirmTask.title=Confirm this, with a title which is different than the task name
Which -in theory- should give you the possibility of using the same task model in multiple workflows with different localization, but I guess you still have to duplicate your model in order to be able to have multiple localizations in the same workflow!
Update :
Oops! I got tricked by this statement:
This page was last modified on 13 March 2015, at 02:22.
That was a bot marking the page as obsolete!
The page is obviously outdated and it is talking about jbpm, not activiti, hopefully you still can use the same naming conventions!
Otherwise, worst case scenario, you got to create new task models that basically just extend your original task model to be able to customize the task title as needed (No need to redefine properties/constraints ...).
I have been trying to find if this works.
|Script|RestScriptFixture|http://admin:password#localhost:5984/|
I found this example but have been getting an error that the restscriptfixture is not found.
It seems like you have not imported the fixture correctly. If you look at the SetUp part of the ScriptTable documentation, you can see that they include some fixtures to get it to call the actual class. According to the RestScriptFixture documentation, the actual import statement is:
|import|
|smartrics.rest.fitnesse.fixture|
Note that you must have the RestScriptFixture jar on your classpath as well.
Update: as of Grails 1.3.6 one has access to the full domain from Gant scripts.
From the Grails 1.3.6 release notes:
You can now run one or more Groovy scripts from the commandline using the run-script command, e.g.
grails run-script [path-to-script-1] [path-to-script-2]...[path-to-script-n]
This works around the issue in Gant scripts where you can't conveniently access application classes since they're not available in the classpath when the scripts start.
Hi all,
I am new to using Grails (in a real project) and I have a one-off script I need to execute that reads a file and then populates my database.
I wanted the script to run in the context of my grails app, so I used the create-script command. I now understand that makes it a 'Gant' script. The reason for doing so was that I thought it would allow me easy access to all the grails domain good-ness, so that i would be able to do something like this easily:
Car car = new Car(model: 'bar', brand: 'Ford')
car.save()
Here, Car is one of my domain classes and the strings 'bar' and 'Ford' I have retrieved from my file.
The start of my script looks like this:
import com.foo.Car
grailsHome = Ant.project.properties."environment.GRAILS_HOME"
includeTargets << new File ( "${grailsHome}/scripts/Bootstrap.groovy" )
target(main: "a script for storing cars") {
depends(bootstrap, classpath) // code dealing with the file with cars follows
Surprisingly, groovy gives me a java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: com.foo.Car when I execute the script with the command grails LoadCars
Am I taking the wrong approach, or is there something more simple I am doing wrong?
Any help is appreciated
i know the scripts are useful, and I will probably get hate mail for even suggesting it, but I have just incorporating this kinda of stuff directly into my application in the past.
I have a flag set in my configuration which indicates if the data should be bootstrapped, if so, the bootstrap code looks for a comma delimited file at startup and calls a service method to load up the data.
I've updated the grails run-script Gant script (referred to by Jared above) to work with grails 1.3.5. I'd been meaning to do it for a while, but this question nudged me into finally getting around to it).
Just download the script described in the post, save it in your grails "scripts" directory and you can then run your own groovy script to bootstrap data with:
grails run-script script-path/boostrapMyDataIntoApp.groovy
I've had to do this and you have to create a special script to allow you to access GORM from a standard grails script. See this question for more info. I'm not sure what the current status of the script is under grails 1.3 but the author of the script posted in the comments.
Hans, there are several choices here, assuming you are not out to polish the GANT scripting chops 8^)
So assume that you are doing some integration-mode TDD, correct?
Have you looked into the db-stuff plugin? Actually that one leverages the open source package (extension of the JUnit project) called dbUnit, which is also an outstanding choice, for both Java and Groovy projects.
*db-stuff <0.3.0> -- db schema managment and data import/export. Generate generic schema files and import or export base/seed/test data into your database.
I have traditionally done this as well in the BootStrap depending on the environment - and I try to never let those domain assumptions / constraints get too far out of synch. with my schema.
Here's the canon I'm talking about :
class BootStrap {
def init = { servletContext ->
if (GrailsUtil.environment.equals( GrailsApplication.ENV_DEVELOPMENT )) {
log.info( "Loading sample data for 2010 models..." );
new Car( manufacturer: new Manufacturer( name: "Toyota" ), model: "Prius" )
new Car( manufacturer: new Manufacturer( name: "GM" ), model: "Volt" )
//...