In Grails, is there a good way to mock the current time using Joda time?

Question

I\'m writing some code that does date and time calculations against the current time. In Joda time, this is accessed through a (Java) constructor, as it is an immutable obje

Answer 1

We ended up creating dateService with now() method. In unit tests we mock it with

domainInstance.dateService = [ now: { currentTime } ] as DateService

where currentTime is a unit test class field. This imposes everybody's dependency on dateService (our only nearly-global dependency), and for src classes one has to pass it by hand.

Unit tests, OTOH, look pretty clear with it.