Question

Is there a way I can easily flatten an object to one table in Gorm? I have several conceptual entities which always need to be joined to their parent class. That is, I have this:

class A{
   B other;
   String name;
   String value;
}

class B{
   String val1;
   String val2;
}

Is there a way to annotate this so that val1 and val2 appear exclusively in table A?

Answer 1

Add other to the embedded list in class A:

class A{
   B other;
   String name;
   String value;

   static embedded = ['other']
}

See section 5.2.2, Composition in GORM: http://grails.org/doc/1.0.x/guide/5.%20Object%20Relational%20Mapping%20%28GORM%29.html