Comments on: Grails Scaffolding In-Depth

By: Jakob Külzer

Jakob Külzer — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 12:12:02 +0000

@s.spranger: I agree, these templates ARE hard to read, and really hard to get right. Modifying them can be a real pain and usually involves a lot of step by step debugging.

Your comment (dis)appeared because I moderate them.

By: s.spranger

s.spranger — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 15:01:32 +0000

the code I dropped in the comment above disappeared, propably because of the many backslashes, double quotes or what ever

By: s.spranger

s.spranger — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:58:56 +0000

I find code like this (from renderEditor.template)

return “”

rather unreadable. Escaped dollars, escaped double quotes.
And no one (at least me) knows, what properies and their subproperties are known to the template at runtime. This info could be included in the template as a comment.

By: Ian Walter

Ian Walter — Tue, 18 May 2010 19:42:20 +0000

This is great. This should be added to the Grails documentation! Thank you.

By: B Sreekanth

B Sreekanth — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:10:12 +0000

Thank you !!

By: grails == barrierefreiheit? « hilderclan.de/blog

grails == barrierefreiheit? « hilderclan.de/blog — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:08:59 +0000

[...] wenn die Standards Templates für die eigenen Anforderungen nicht ausreichen, siehe Jakusys blog: http://www.jakusys.de/blog/2008/12/grails-scaffolding-in-depth/ (wo ist das geile Design [...]

By: Sebastian Hilder

Sebastian Hilder — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:07:28 +0000

bevor ich das alles quasi abschreibe, verlinke auch ich lieber zu dir…

top post. wie die anderen auch. grails rockt. n’est pas? schöne grüße. sebastian.

By: Gabe Beged-Dov

Gabe Beged-Dov — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:00:57 +0000

Thanks for writing up your findings. One note is that propertyName is set to domainClass.propertyName + “Instance” rather than just the short name such as “user”.

This is a bit of a problem if you want to share view templates across controllers and use any dynamic controller scaffold code since the controller code will have a controller-specific propertyName. I’m not sure what the scenario is where there could be a name collision on the controller name. I use “instance*” rather than “${shortName}Instance” and its been OK so far…

By: Jakob Külzer

Jakob Külzer — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 23:08:43 +0000

Hey,
with the default Grails scaffolding it’s hard to generate views besides the default ones because the views are hardcoded into the DefaultGrailsTemplateGenerator. If you need more flexible scaffolding you might want to look into the Xtemplates plugin: http://www.grails.org/Xtemplates+Plugin

Cheers,
Jakob

By: Alberto Brandolini

Alberto Brandolini — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:23:42 +0000

Hi,

this was really interesting and useful. I am currently tweaking the Grails scaffolding process and this article has been really helpful. Thanks!