Overriding dateCreated for testing in Grails

Question

Is there any way I can override the value of dateCreated field in my domain class without turning off auto timestamping?

I need to test controller and I ha

Answer 1

You can try to disable it by setting autoTimestamp = false in the domain class mapping. I doubt about global overriding because the value is taken directly from System.currentTimeMillis() (I'm looking at org.codehaus.groovy.grails.orm.hibernate.support.ClosureEventListener.java).

So I can only suggest that you override a setter for dateCreated field in your class, and assign your own value. Maybe even metaclass access will work, like

Date stubDateCreated
...
myDomainClass.metaClass.setDateCreated = 
    { Date d -> delegate.@dateCreated = stubDateCreated }