In my current grails application, we have started using the AngularJS after realizing that the GSP template engine is a bit slow. Now, I realize how efficient AngularJS can be, and think of sharing my first impressions while using AngularJS with grails app. Following are some of the reasons, that I find, makes AngularJS stands out: The aim […]
The other day I was reading the Grails docs and I came across a useful GSP tag: grep. I have been using Grails for over 3 years now but just recently got to see this new tag which has eased my life a bit in situations where the list of objects have to be filtered […]
JQuery mobile provides set of features which are supported on almost all smartphones such as touch UI, ajax navigation, animated page transitions. Building jQuery mobile page is very simple, here’s how: A jQuery Mobile site must start with an HTML5 ‘doctype’ to take full advantage of all of the framework’s features. First of all you […]
Here we are going to talk about a scenario where there are some records in database which are specific to locale and they need to be displayed as per user’s current locale at number of places.Also user can change its preferred locale. For this I preferred to set the user’s locale in the session object. […]
Recently, I used Taglib to centralize the effect of URL mapping related changes of my grails application. [java] def userPageLink = {attrs, body -> def user = User.read(attrs.id) out << g.link(controller: ‘user’, action: ‘show’, params: [name: user.name]) {body()} } [/java] So wherever I need a link to user page, I can use this Taglib instead […]
We use internationalization feature in grails using message tag in GSP pages. However arbitrary Groovy/Grails (e.g. tags) code can not be used in JavaScript as they are not executed on server side. To overcome this I used the following way : Declare a JSON object in js file or any where else so that this […]
We have a setup where a backend thread, fired by the Spring Events, does some processing, generates a PDF and emails the result to the user. The code we were using to generate the HTML from a GSP to be converted to a PDF using iText was as follows : [java] def webRequest = RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes() […]
Today while working on a project, I paired up with my colleague (Uday) and we found that we can render a gsp template in a different manner also. Grails provide us a “tmpl” namespace for rendering the GSP templates. The old way that we use to render a gsp template The other way for rendering […]
There are situations where you might want to know the Locale of the user as set in the session in your GSP so that you can show text in a particular language/manner. Here the Spring framework’s SessionLocaleResolver can come to the rescue. In one of our recent Grails projects, we did the following in one […]