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

A simpler solution is to use a SQL query in your integration test to set it as you please after you initialize your object with the other values you want.

YourDomainClass.executeUpdate(
"""UPDATE YourDomainClass SET dateCreated = :date
WHERE yourColumn = :something""",
[date:yourDate, something: yourThing])