In one of the sessions in SpringOne2GX, there was a session on Uber-Scaffolding by Jean Barmarsh. The session was quite incredible and opened up a world of possibilities. We all know that the scaffolded code generated by grails is modifiable if we install the base templates. This is done simply by saying:
1 | grails install-templates |
The above command will create the following directory structure in the application’s src folder
As we can see, there are 3 main directories here :
- Artifacts: This directory contains all the base files for creating various artifacts. For example, if you say “grails create-domain-class packageName.className”, then the file “src/artifacts/DomainClass.groovy” is taken as the template for creating this file. Same goes for other artifacts like filters, taglibs, controllers, etc.
- Scaffolding: This directory contains the template files that are used for generating scaffolded code(controllers and views).
- War : This just contains the web.xml file. If you need to add some configuration block(e.g. session-timeout, etc)
Now there are a lot of things that we may need to modify in the grails templates, the pagination size being one. So, the first change that I did was made the “max” parameter in controller be Config driven simply by replacing :
1 | params.max = Math.min(params.max ? params. int ( 'max' ) : 10 , 100 ) |
by
1 | int pageSize = grailsApplication.config.grails.scaffolds.pageSize ?: 10 |
2 | params.max = Math.min(params.max ? params. int ( 'max' ) : pageSize, 100 ) |
This was the simplest thing that was done.
In order to use the changed scaffolding, there are two ways of doing this:
-
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grails generate-all MyDomainClass
- Create an empty controller, and put the following code in it :
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def scaffold = MyDomainClass
Note: When playing around with grails templates, be very careful not to format this code using an IDE. The formatting will add unwanted spaces and the grails create-*/generate-* commands will start failing or produce wrong/unusable files.
Will be back with more
Regards
~~Himanshu Seth~~
http://www.IntelliGrape.com