Easy configuration usage with ConfigSlurper

What’s the problem?

We have to deal with properties in almost every projects that we write. Properties class, which we use in these cases, is Read more

Groovy, Callable and ExecutorService

Suppose you want submit job to ExecutorService.

The Baroque version

You could create a class that implements Callable:

class MyJob implements Callable<Integer>{
    @Override

Writing JAXB in Groovy

Suppose you want write a jaxb class in groovy. Why? Because you do not have to write these all getters, setters and other methods. You Read more

All field constructor in Groovy

TupleConstructor annotation in Groovy generate constructors for class with each of its properties (eventually also fields). The class below

@TupleConstructor(includeFields = true)
class Person {

Log4j and MDC in Grails

Log4j provides very useful feature: MDC – mapped diagnostic context. It can be used to store data in context of current thread. It may sound

Grails with Spock unit test + IntelliJ IDEA = No thread-bound request found

During my work with Grails project using Spock test in IntelliJ IDEA I’ve encountered this error:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No thread-bound request found: Are you referring to

Error Error generating web.xml file (Use --stacktrace to

Simple trick to DRY your Grails controller

Grails controllers are not very DRY. It’s easy to find duplicated code fragments in default generated controller. Take a look at code sample below. It Read more

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