Category Archives: Grails/Groovy

Accessing i18n message in Grails service

Seems (to me) like an obvious need – referencing a translatable message in a service in a Grails app. But you can’t just use g:message – well, I’ve seen some workarounds that let you access the g namespace, but that doesn’t really seem advisable. I just want message handling. I found several references to the […]

July 23, 2014 – 8:09 pm | By Ian | Posted in Grails/Groovy, Programming/Web Design | Comments (0)

Grails beforeUpdate filter fails without log.info

Ok, I know I’m missing something here, but I don’t know what it is. At any rate, trial and error has taught me that my beforeUpdate (and probably beforeInsert too, just haven’t tested that yet) prevent the update (or insert?) from completing, unless I add some extra code to “jiggle” it. Sounds crazy, right? But […]

May 20, 2014 – 5:36 pm | By Ian | Posted in Grails/Groovy | Comments (0)

Reserved words in Grails?

So, I found this list of reserved words in Groovy, but a few times I’ve run into others that seem to be problematic. Not sure if they are actually “reserved”, or where the conflict is for each, but I know I had problems… alternate – so, I had a domain Course, and another domain CourseAlternate […]

May 7, 2014 – 1:29 pm | By Ian | Posted in Grails/Groovy | Comments (0)

Use “name” to add an “id” attribute to g:form (in Grails)

If you want to use the simple syntax <g:form action=’myaction’ />, adding id=”x” will result in a form post to /myaction/x – to get a post to /myaction with a form id attribute of “x”, use the name attribtue instead, as <g:form action=’dologin’ name=’x’ />, per this thread: https://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-895 Alternately, you can use the syntax […]

May 5, 2014 – 2:03 pm | By Ian | Posted in Grails/Groovy | Comments (0)