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Asked: 2026-05-26T01:41:32+00:00

Reading the documentation on Grails Unit testing I came across the following: In Grails

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Reading the documentation on Grails Unit testing I came across the following:

In Grails you need to be particularly aware of the difference between
unit and integration tests because in unit test Grails does not inject
any of the dynamic methods present during integration tests at
runtime.

^ Grails 9.1 Unit Testing Documenation

And with this I’m assuming the missing injected methods refer to:

  • the getBy*, .save() methods from GORM and Hibernate

Is there anything else that is dynamically injected that they are talking about here?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Essentially all of the GORM related methods (dynamic finders, etc.) are what are being pointed out in the documentation. They are not available in unit tests (without mocking), only in integration tests.

    The following are the majority of the methods not available during unit tests.


    addTo
    attach
    count
    countBy
    createCriteria
    delete
    discard
    executeQuery
    executeUpdate
    exists
    find
    findAll
    findAllBy
    findAllWhere
    findBy
    findWhere
    get
    getAll
    getDirtyPropertyNames
    getPersistentValues
    ident
    isAttached
    isDirty
    list
    listOrderBy
    load
    lock
    merge
    read
    refresh
    removeFrom
    save

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