For example, let's say I have Artist and Album domain classes where Artist hasMany Albums and Album belongsTo Artist. Artist has a name property that is unique. On my create album page I want to be able to type in the artist name and have the save action in the controller automatically lookup an existing Artist instance or create a new one if it doesn't exist. Doing this I don't want to have to add or change anything in the save action itself - I could theoretically use dynamic scaffolding.
Adapting Stefan's PropertyEditor implementation I created this:
The crucial change is the
if (!value) block which creates the new instance and populates the relevant property.To make everything work I just need to:
- Add the PropertyEditorRegistrar and place it in resources.groovy as per Stefan's post.
- Have a text input or autocompleter with the name "artist" in my create album form.
- Add
artist cascade: "save-update"to the mapping block in Album so that when the Album is saved the new Album will get saved as well.
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Returning a new instance in case that an object is not found is definitely a good point.
thank you very much, this is exactly what I needed for my Country table ^^
Using the ?: operator, there a more groovy way to implement setAsText as a one-liner:
void setAsText(String text) {
domainClass."findBy${StringUtils.capitalize(property)}"(text) ?: domainClass.newInstance((property): text)
}
I am trying to use the same code but I have an StackOverflowError in the line :
propertyEditorRegistry.registerCustomEditor(Account, new DomainClassLookupPropertyEditor(domainClass: Account, property: "name"))
Dont know why
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