grails

How to use the eclipse Hibernate Tools with grails and MySQL

I've managed to connect from eclipse Hibernate Tools to my MySql Database used with grails, classes mapped by GORM. Now I'd like to perform HQL queries on the DB using the Hibernate Tools. However Hibernate Tools tells me for every table that it is not mapped. My question: Do I really need to write all the class mappings manually into ...

RESTful VS XML-styled requests

I'm developing API for booking(hotels, cars, apartments, etc.) system. Response will be in XML but how to handle requests in the best way ? Should they be an XML requests like on Travelfusion or RESTful like on Cleartrip ? Service is written in Grails. ...

Spring Security (Acegi) and user Groups (vs. Roles)

We're developing an app (using Grails Spring Security (formerly Acegi)) in which we'll have thousands of users that span 10-15 discreet user types. In the current system, each user type equates to a "group", and the specific roles and permissions are tied to the group. The user gets all their "roles" from the group. For example, we mi...

Grails - Multiple domain names, related websites

Hi Im building a Grails app that will have multiple similar websites (each it's own domain name) with the same code but different design and configuration. (think of blogger) What is the best method for using different view and even some different logic on a single app without too much hacking? I'm new to Grails and the method I have...

comparison of intellij vs springs grails IDE

What does intellij do that other IDEs dont vis-a-vis grails? Im trying to decide whether I should renew my license when it comes time.... thanx... ...

Grails: How to run multiple apps in development env ?

I have two Grails apps developing in the same time that needs to comunicate with each other. How can I run both of them with grails run-app? If the server is already started and try to run the second app I get: Server failed to start: LifecycleException: Protocol handler initialization failed: java.net.SocketException: Unrecognized...

Groovy/Grails JSON converting of complex objects and collections.

I have following mapping representing categories tree: class Category { String name static belongsTo = [parent: Category] static hasMany = [categories: Category] } The thing I want to do is to render all of the category tree and exclude field parent from rendering. render category as JSON renders only first level of hiera...

grails - how to make filter recognize values from datePicker using Grails Calendar Plugin?

I was using regular datePicker from grails but I decided it was easier to use a textField with a calendar next to it and I was recommended to use Grails-UI. My problem is that now, when I click to apply the filters, they do not work. Somehow they are not being recognized. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Here is the code for the...

Grails Enum Works on Jetty, breaks on Tomcat

I have developed this small app and run it on Jetty with no problems... Bug.groovy: package itsafeature class Bug { String name String description Priority priority Project project static belongsTo = Project static constraints = { name(size:10..150) description(size:25..1500) project...

Using Spring to Access an EJB Across Clusters in WebSphere using Grails

I have spent the last few days attempting to integrate a Grails (version 1.3.2) application with an EJB 2.1 application that is deployed on WebSphere 6.1. Once our grails apps are in production, they will be deployed to WebSphere as well. The EJB 2.1 application is widely used across our company and, in anything except a local developm...

Grails: not finding plugin classes

Hi I use STS for Grails development. When I install a plugin the IDE does not find some core classes of the plugin. Example: import grails.plugins.nimble.core.AdminsService gives "Unable to resolve class import grails.plugins.nimble.core.AdminsService" . The project runs OK. Also, I can't find that classes myself in the project...

Query Subset of Columns with Gorm

Suppose I have the following Domain class: class Book { String title String author byte[] largeCoverArtImage } I have a list view where I do not need to display largeCoverArtImage, how can I perform the following SQL query using GORM Criteria? select title, author from Book ...

Creating a Grails URLMapping for all methods in a controller?

How do I create a urlmapping that maps controller A essentially as controller B? I thought something like this would work, but no dice. "/my/"(controller: 'other', action: '*') ...

How to integrate a "Poll module" into a grails application ?

In my grails application, I would like to integrate a simple "Poll module" where people can vote (without authentication) with different options integrated into the homepage website. Poll Results (graphical preferably) can be shown in a different page (or in the same module frame). Do you know if there is a grails plugin or any other si...

Is there any solution for Grails to select a folder like <input type="file"

is there a solution to select a folderpath as comfortable like the input-file tag? ...

Grails: How to make jQuery-UI work correctly with all its functions?

Hey I just installed jQuery-UI via grails install-plugin jquery-ui And I can't make it work. I read on the Grails Plugin documentation that I needed to update the file jQueryUiGrailsPlugin.groovy and change the JQUERYUI_VERSION to the most recent one. I went to change it and it had my same version, so now I don't know what it could be. ...

Grails: test domain object constraints

Hi, I'm trying to test the constraints of my User domain class class UserTests extends GrailsUnitTestCase { protected void setUp() { super.setUp() mockForConstraintsTests(User) } void testEmailConstraint() { // Test e-mail validation def user = new User(userRealName: 'bob', passwd: 'foo') ...

Caching application data in Grails

Hi, in order to keep certain application variables I may need to change when the application is running without having to restart it, I'm thinking in implementing a Grails service and a Quartz job so every X minutes, the service reloads the entire "parameters" table - and I query the service for a parameter's value. Now, is this a good ...

Grails and AJAX: Grails form validation working using ModalBox or YUI2 Dialog ?

Several Grails applications, like the one I'm writing, require a /user view and /admin view that are 'dashboards', basically the user or admin lands on that page, possibly after a successful login and all the datatables and tabs are there, so they hardly ever need to navigate off that page, providing a more satisfying users experience, l...

url mappings grails

right, basically we have a link into our system that is all lowercase but that needs to be camel cased. rather than get the other developers to fix this, I want to just make the problem go away by url magic "/myobj/$action?/$id?"{ controller: "myObj" } what i am trying to do is map anything that references controller myo...