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September 26, 2010

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Redirecting to .com (without confusing CloudFoundry…)

It’s a two-for-one today – a “gotcha” and a “how to” all rolled into one, this time about redirecting in a Grails filter.

Much like my favicon woes my initial attempt to redirect to a primary domain (a .com without the “www” prefix) had some unexpected consequences when deployed to a live server on CloudFoundry – I started getting warnings that my site had gone down!

In this post I’ll hopefully save you the panic of CloudFoundry telling you that your site’s not responding when you try to rationalise your domain names!

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June 16, 2010

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Upgrading Grails from 1.2.2 to 1.3.1

The usually simple upgrade process in Grails has caused me a few headaches in moving from 1.2.2 to 1.3.1. I skipped the 1.3 upgrade because there were a few people having issues on the mailing list but yesterday I bit the bullet and encountered a couple of problems.

I think the release notes for Grails 1.3.x have been unusually poor so this post has the issues I’ve encountered in the hope that you won’t go quite as mad as I have. I’ll keep it updated if I find more problems. Continue reading →

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March 15, 2010

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Simple Aspects using Annotations in Grails

Aspect Oriented Programming is a concept which will be familiar to users of the Spring Framework as one of its core features. However, the details of how to get AOP working in Grails appear thin on the ground, so in this post I will show how to set up a simple aspect then configure and apply it using attributes. I will assume some familiarity with Spring AOP so I won’t explain the terminology or general concepts since they are exactly the same  in Java as they are in Grails. Continue reading →

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March 2, 2010

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When My Grails App Got Stuck in a Recompilation Loop

The first sign something was wrong was the JVM bombing out with a “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space” error. All I’d done was change a gsp, so I restarted and after a long wait the same thing happened and it was then I noticed that the compiler just kept recompiling 4 classes in a loop until the JVM bombed.

This had happened to me once before when I’d managed to set the time incorrectly on my PC so some of my files appeared to be modified in the future. However this time I’d not done anything of the sort.

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February 23, 2010

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How to Login a User with the Grails Acegi/Spring Security Plugin

The Grails Spring Security plugin is a wonderful thing and certainly worthy of more time spent on it than in this quick post. It saves days, if not weeks of work, plumbing in the standard security model of most websites. Notwithstanding its obvious benefits, I have noticed that many people struggle with some features of it, especially when retro-fitting it to an existing database schema and I can only assume it’s because the best examples of performing common tasks are only seen when generating the classes from scratch, using the generate-registration and generate-manager scripts.

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February 12, 2010

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Why Won’t My Data Bind!

I love having the ability to create property getter and setter methods in Groovy and it really simplifies all those bean accessors in Grails domain classes. At least, it does until you define one incorrectly and spend an embarrassingly long time trying to work out why data in your Grails controller isn’t being bound… Continue reading →

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January 29, 2010

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Rendering JSON In Grails. Part 1: Collections, Testing and the JSONBuilder

One of the many useful features Grails provides is the ability to quickly render data as JSON so it’s possible to interface with the many AJAX libraries available with a minimum of coding fuss, or provide an API to 3rd parties with very little effort. Having implemented such behaviour I’ve found that a little more than the basic understanding is helpful for success in real applications, so over the next 3 posts I will attempt to convey the simplicity and power of this feature while also giving some practical tips. Continue reading →