In one of our project we needed to maintain history of domain objects when they are updated. We saw Grails Audit Logging Plugin as a good candidate. But later, found that it doesn’t take care of persistent collections. So with help of my colleague Vivek and this Stack Overflow thread, we extended this plugin without […]
The groovy world is abuzz about the latest release from the Grails Stable, Grails 2.0, which packs a lot more punch than its predecessors, which by themselves were productivity enhancers and wonderful to develop our web applications with. The new version brings with itself a lot of changes compared to the previous releases and deserves […]
Hi, In one of my Grails project, i needed to have Share feature on the messages/post published by our application on facebook wall. In Facebook, if the message/text published is simple text, then Share link appears on it, but if it contains any link/URL attached to it, then Facebook do not provides Share button on […]
Since Git is awesome. It also provides functionality of making aliases. Example [shell]git config –global alias.co checkout [/shell] Here we created co as an alias for checkout (All the aliases that are created goes into .gitconfig file under home folder). Now to checkout a branch named testBranch, We can also write [shell]git co testBranch Switched […]
Since we use git numerous times a day over and over, hence needs maintenance. There are few commands that will help you to keep our git healthy. If you feel that you git has somewhat slowed down, these would do the trick for you. Since ours is a pretty big project . I run it […]
The other day, Farid came with an interesting problem of binding a Time String to java.sql.Time. We straight away found the answer in using a CustomTimeEditor and registering it using a CustomPropertyEditorRegistrar bean. We were able to come arrive at this solution, thanks to this StackOverflow thread. This set me thinking into using a CustomProperty […]
In the 1st part of the series, we looked at how to secure our application with Spring Security Basic Authentication and modifying the JSON Marshaller. However, it could often be the case that the same set of fields shouldn’t be returned on every JSON response. For example, we could very well have a summary JSON […]
Well This is something awesome and can increase the performance of the project when used wisely. using the groovy .memoize() we can ask closures to perform kind of caching. This can boost up the performance of the system. _ Note: This feature is available in groovy 1.8+ Well Let me Explain this Using Examples […]
Recently, I got to learn about the scoped services in grails and I found it worth sharing. For instance: A Service marked as ‘session’ scoped would be instantiated once for a session and remains there throughout the lifetime of the session. This can be used to store user specific data in this service bean class. […]
