24. Real Life Example: GORM in Grails class Album { String title String artist Date releaseDate static hasMany = [songs:Song] } class Song { String title Double duration } table - album table - song GORM classes, also known as domain classes, go in the domain directory id title artist release_date id title duration album_id
26. Dynamic Finders & Criteria def albums = Album. list () def recentAlbums = Album. findAllByReleaseDateGreaterThan (new Date()-7) def albumsStartingWithA = Album. findAllByTitleLike ( "A%") def albumsWithSongsAboutSummer = Album. withCriteria { songs { like("title", "%Summmer%") } } List all records Form method expressions Use “like” queries Construct criteria on the fly to query associations
32. Real Life Example: Spring & Grails class Book { PurchasingService purchasingService Transaction buyBook(User u) { purchasingService.buyBook(this, u) } } Book. metaClass.constructor = {-> def obj = BeanUtils.instantiateClass(Book) applicationContext .getAutowireCapableBeanFactory() . autowireBeanProperties( obj, AutowireCapableBeanFactory.AUTOWIRE_BY_NAME, false) return obj } Book domain class requires reference to PurchasingService Overriding default constructor for class Autowire dependencies into object from Spring at construction time
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36. Groovy and Grails: Changing the Landscape of Java™ Platform, Enterprise Edition (Java EE Platform) Patterns Graeme Rocher Guillaume LaForge TS-5793