Question

I would like my templates to be smarter about generating controllers. In my domain classes I have specified an enum with the properties that should be added to the security annotation in the controller.

static enum SecurityProperties {
    ROLE_SUPER_USER( "ROLE_SUPER_USER" ),
    IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY( "IS_AUTHENTICATED_FULLY" )

    SecurityProperties( String s ) {
        this.s = s
    }

    @Override
    public String toString() {
        return s;
    }        
}

I would like the template to look at this enum and create the security annotation in a controller when the controller is generated. I use the templates a lot and it is a major annoyance to run generate-all then have to add the security annotations back in for all of my controllers.

My problem is that I am having issues accessing the enum from the template because I cannot get the domain class.

I usually get a domain class like this:

grailsApplication.getArtefact( "Domain", "myDomainClass" )?.getClazz()

But grailsApplication is not available in the template.

What other Grails / Groovy way is there to get the class or make grailsApplication available?

Answer 1

Within the scaffolding templates you have a domainClass variable available to you which contains the GrailsDomainClass, so domainClass.clazz should give you what you need.