We can use PostConstruct with Grails Services and injected Spring Beans. This PostConstruct annotation can be used to annotate a method which needs to be executed after dependency injection to perform any initialization.
[code]
import javax.annotation.PostConstruct
class PostConstructDemoService {
@PostConstruct
private void init() {
println "Initializing"
//your initialization code goes here. e.g connect to some Messaging Service
}
}
[/code]
Check this for more details. We also have PreDestroy annotation.
Regards,
Ankur Tripathi
ankur@intelligrape.com
While this does call the method marked with the annotation, this does not work when using domain objects within said method. If you attempt this, you receive:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: Method on class [YourDomainObject] was used outside of a Grails application. If running in the context of a test using the mocking API or bootstrap Grails correctly.
To initialize a bean such as this, I had to utilize the BootStrap mechanism to call an init() method.