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1.2 What's new in Grails 2.2? - Reference Documentation

Authors: Graeme Rocher, Peter Ledbrook, Marc Palmer, Jeff Brown, Luke Daley, Burt Beckwith, Lari Hotari

Version: 2.3.8

1.2 What's new in Grails 2.2?

Namespace Support

Grails 2.2 includes improved support for managing naming conflicts between artifacts provided by an application and its plugins.

Bean names for Service artifacts provided by a plugin are now prefixed with the plugin name. For example, if a Service named com.publishing.AuthorService is provided by a plugin named PublishingUtilities and another Service named com.bookutils.AuthorService is provided by a plugin named BookUtilities, the bean names for those services will be publishingUtilitiesAuthorService and bookUtilitiesAuthorService respectively. If a plugin provides a Service that does not have a name which conflicts with any other Service, then a bean alias will automatically be created that does not contain the prefix and the alias will refer to the bean referenced by the prefixed name. Service artifacts provided directly by the application will have no prefix added to the relevant bean name. See the dependency injection and services docs.

Domain classes provided by a plugin will have their default database table name prefixed with the plugin name if the grails.gorm.table.prefix.enabled config property is set to true. For example, if the PublishingUtilities plugin provides a domain class named Book, the default table name for that domain class will be PUBLISHING_UTILITIES_BOOK if the grails.gorm.table.prefix.enabled config property is set to true.

URL Mappings may now include a plugin attribute to indicate that the controller referenced in the mapping is provided by a particular plugin.

static mappings = {    // requests to /bookAuthors will be handled by the
    // AuthorController provided by the BookUtilities plugin
    "/bookAuthors" {
        controller = 'author'
        plugin = 'bookUtilities'
    }
    // requests to /publishingAuthors will be handled by the
    // AuthorController provided by the Publishing plugin
    "/publishingAuthors" {
        controller = 'author'
        plugin = 'publishing'
    }
}

See the namespaced controllers docs for more information.

Controller methods and GSP Tags which accept a controller name as a parameter now support an optional parameter indicating that the controller is provided by a specific plugin.

<g:link controller="user" plugin="springSecurity">Manage Users</g:link>

class DemoController {
    def index() {
        redirect controller: 'user', action: 'list', plugin: 'springSecurity'
    }
}

Forked Tomcat Execution

Grails 2.2 supports forked JVM execution of the Tomcat container in development mode. This has several benefits including:

Reduced memory consumption, since the Grails build system can exit
Isolation of the build classpath from the runtime classpath
The ability to deploy other Grails/Spring applications in parallel without conflicting dependencies

See the documentation on using forked mode for more information.

SQL Projections In Criteria Queries

Grails 2.2 adds new functionality to criteria queries to provide access to Hibernate's SQL projection API.

// Use SQL projections to retrieve the perimeter and area of all of the Box instances…
def c = Box.createCriteria()def results = c.list {
    projections {
      sqlProjection '(2 * (width + height)) as perimiter, (width * height) as area', ['perimeter', 'area'], [INTEGER, INTEGER]
    }
}

See the Criteria section for more information.

Groovy 2

Grails 2.2 ships with Groovy 2.0, which has a bunch of new features itself.

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1.2 What's new in Grails 2.2? - Reference Documentation