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Monday, September 30, 2013

Grails: how to get/set a meta-constraint on domain class property such as belongsTo or other variables

In the scaffolding templates there is a property domainClass from type org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.DefaultGrailsDomainClass. These object has the property constrainedProperties. To have access to any properties such in this example: 'readonly' you have to do this:

Your domain class:


class Contact {
   static belongsTo = [subscription: Subscription]

   static constraints = {
       subscription(nullable: false, attributes: [readonly: true])  
   }

   String description
}


The DefaultGrailsDomainClass has a constructor with a attribute from type Class maybe you can do this:


def domainClass = new DefaultGrailsDomainClass(Contact.class)
def ro = domainClass.constrainedProperties.subscription.attributes.readonly



def domainClass = new DefaultGrailsDomainClass(it.metaClass.getTheClass())
def constrainedProperties = domainClass.constrainedProperties;
if(constrainedProperties.containsKey("subscription")) {
    ConstrainedProperty v = (ConstrainedProperty) constrainedProperties.get("subscription");
    /**
     * Now check
     */
    if(v.isNullable()) {
        println "Nullable";
    }
    if(v.isBlank()) {
        println "Blank";
    }
    /**
     * There are may other constraints
     * http://grails.org/doc/latest/api/org/codehaus/groovy/grails/validation/ConstrainedProperty.html 
     * Java/Grails Class ConstrainedProperty
     */ 
 }