Externalizing Grails Datasource configuration

Question

Grails 1.x allows using external configuration files by setting the grails.config.locations directive. Is there a similar approach available for externalizi

Answer 1

Just put the configuration file location as following in Config.groovy file

grails.config.locations = [
            "file:/yourDirectory/${appName}/${Environment.current.name}-datasource.properties",
            "file:/yourDirectory/${appName}/${Environment.current.name}-config.groovy",
            "classpath:${appName}-${Environment.current.name}-datasource.properties",
            "classpath:${appName}-${Environment.current.name}-config.groovy"
    ]

And put all the details about datasource and other config values in your appropriate file. Hence you can externalize the configuration and need not restart to change values.