How do you access two databases in Grails

Question

Grails makes it very easy to configure datasources for different environments (development, test, production) in its DataSources.groovy file, but there seems to be no facili

Answer 1

Grails 2.0 can handle multiple data sources without a plugin:

Example with a different datasource for the dev(h2 dataSource) and test(mysql dataSource_mysql) environments:

DataSource.groovy:

dataSource {
    pooled = true
    driverClassName = "org.h2.Driver"
    username = "sa"
    password = ""
}
dataSource_mysql {
    dialect = org.hibernate.dialect.MySQLInnoDBDialect
    driverClassName = 'com.mysql.jdbc.Driver'
    username = "user"
    password = "pass"
    url = "jdbc:mysql://mysqldb.com/DBNAME"
}
hibernate {
    cache.use_second_level_cache = true
    cache.use_query_cache = false
    cache.region.factory_class = 'net.sf.ehcache.hibernate.EhCacheRegionFactory'
}

// environment specific settings
environments {
    development {
        dataSource {
            configClass = HibernateFilterDomainConfiguration.class
            dbCreate = "update" // one of 'create', 'create-drop', 'update', 'validate', ''
            url = "jdbc:h2:file:../devDb;MVCC=TRUE"
            sqlLogging = true
        }
    }
    test {
        dataSource_mysql {
            configClass = HibernateFilterDomainConfiguration.class
            dbCreate = "create" // one of 'create', 'create-drop', 'update', 'validate', ''
            sqlLogging = true
        }
    }
    production {
        dataSource {
            dbCreate = "update"
            url = "jdbc:h2:prodDb;MVCC=TRUE;LOCK_TIMEOUT=10000"
            pooled = true
            properties {
               maxActive = -1
               minEvictableIdleTimeMillis=1800000
               timeBetweenEvictionRunsMillis=1800000
               numTestsPerEvictionRun=3
               testOnBorrow=true
               testWhileIdle=true
               testOnReturn=true
               validationQuery="SELECT 1"
            }
        }
    }
}