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Asked: 2026-05-20T02:59:53+00:00

in my grails application i’d like to invoke from a scheduled job class a

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in my grails application i’d like to invoke from a scheduled job class a method contained in a controller.

Reading this [http://www.grails.org/Job+Scheduling+(Quartz)], I can see that datasources and services are auto-wired by name in job classes. It seems this is not possible for controllers by default, probably ’cause controllers aren’t supposed to do this kind of stuff.

BTW, is there a way to get a controller method called from a job in grails?
And could this be such a bad practice to you (and why)?

Thanks in advance,
Luca

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  1. Editorial Team

    It’s bad practice because Controller is intended to handle web requests – with user session and everything.

    There is no user session in Quartz job.

    Second, keeping functionality in Controller is bad thing on its own – Controller should better only “control” invocations to other business logic method.

    I’d recommend you to move all the functionality to either a service, domain class or a POGO class in src.

    Of course, you can call new MyController().method(), but no beans will be injected into controller by default.

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