How to hide password fields from Grails scaffolding views?

Question

According to the docs, Grails provides a number of constraints that \"have no impact on persistence but customize the scaffolding\". One of them is the passwordcons

Answer 1

One way to solve this is by using customized field rendering via the fields plugin:

• Create a folder grails-app\views\_fields\user\password
• Put two files in this folder: _displayWidget.gsp and _displayWrapper.gsp
• Enter <g:each in="${0..value.length()}">&bull;</g:each> into both files

The password field will not vanish from index and show views, but at least you won't see it's value any longer, but a mask of bullet points instead. Create and edit view still use the password input widget according to the property constraint.