Question

I’m novice to Groovy and I have a doubt. Let’s say I’m doing something like this :

db.execute '''
   //my sql commands
'''

Programmatically how can I find that my execute method succeeds?

I tried this way :

def status = db.execute '''
       //my sql commands
    '''

But even though the data have been inserted into the db ( which I have viewed in my mysql client ), the status returns false. Its confusing for me. Whats going on?

Answer 1

I’m assuming you’re using the groovy.sql.Sql object. If you look at the API (linked previously) for the execute() method, it says it will return false for either a row count return value or a no results return value.

Since you mentioned an insert statement, check your row count via:

if (db.updateCount() > 0) { /* success! */ }