Can a Grails Domain Class inherit from a class that is not a domain class?

Question

I tried to do this, but it insists on their being a table of the base class. I tried using tablePerHierarchy false as well and that didn't make any difference.

I have a few domain classes that share a bunch of methods that operate on an inherited transient field. I had hoped that just having the class over in the non-domain section "/src/..." would be enough for GORM to realize there isn't a base class in the database.

When I put the class in the src section I get a different error. It no longer maps the specific class. Error 500: org.springframework.orm.hibernate3.HibernateQueryException: Summarypage is not mapped [from Summarypage where id = ?]; nested exception is org.hibernate.hql.ast.QuerySyntaxException: Summarypage is not mapped [from Summarypage where id = ?]

Answer 1

I figured it out. If the base class is an abstract class it does the right thing.

Thanks anyway everyone.