SQL/Database Views in Grails

Question

Does anybody know what is the best approach to accessing a sql view through Grails (or if this is even possible)? It seems an obvious way of doing this would be to use execu

Answer 1

You can use plain SQL in Grails which is in the case of accessing a view the preferable way (IMO):

For example in your controller:

import groovy.sql.Sql

class MyFancySqlController {

    def dataSource // the Spring-Bean "dataSource" is auto-injected

    def list = {
        def db = new Sql(dataSource) // Create a new instance of groovy.sql.Sql with the DB of the Grails app

        def result = db.rows("SELECT foo, bar FROM my_view") // Perform the query

        [ result: result ] // return the results as model
    }

}

and the view part:

    
        ${it.foo}
        ${it.bar}
    

I hope the source is self-explanatory. The Documentation can be found here