Question

Let’s say I have a class called Store that has many Employees. My RESTful listXML method looks like this:

def listXML = {     render Store.list() as XML } 

And the result looks like this:

<stores>   <store id='1'>    <name>My Store</name>    <employees>      <employee id='1' />    </employees>   </store> </store> 

My question is, how do I include all the data of each Employee class, so that my XML looks something like this?

   <stores>       <store id='1'>        <name>My Store</name>        <employees>          <employee id='1'>            <name>John Smith</name>            <hireDate>2008-01-01</hireDate>          </employee>        </employees>       </store>     </store> 

Answer 1

In your controller, you’ll want to import the deep converter:

import grails.converters.deep.XML 

You can read about it in the first couple of paragraphs of the Converters Reference.