Grails

Restricting Access To Plugin’s Classes With Spring Security

Many of Grails plugin like searchable  and console can prove to be really dangerous if access to their URLs is not blocked. After adding searchable plugin to my project, I realized that access to its controllers was not defined and was open for all. Now this was a major security concern. There are many ways of restricting access like...

by Hitesh Bhatia
Tag: searchable
03-May-2012

Grails

Searchable plugin – Lucene search on numeric values

While using searchable plugin for the first time, I wasn't aware that lucene implements only lexicographic comparisons for searching on indexed values (even on numeric fields). Before I learned this, I kept on wondering why a Person of age 6 always appeared in search results when I look for People more than 20 years of age. The solution...

by Aman Aggarwal
Tag: searchable
14-Jul-2010