How to override the DomainClass.list() in GORM (Grails)

Question

People, I'm facing a problem with grails GORM, my Application is totally dependent of the DomainClass.list() method, it is in all of my create/edit GSPs, but now I need a particular behavior for listing objects. Being more specific I need to filter these lists (All of them) by one attribute.

The problem is I'm hoping not to change all the appearances of these methods calling, so is there a way to customize the behavior of the default list() method ? I need it to function just the way it does, but adding an ending filter.

Answer 1

Maybe you can use hibernate filter plugin (see here). This will allow you to filter all finder methods (including list()) based on a property:

static hibernateFilters = {
    enabledFilter(condition: 'deleted=0', default: true)
}

Answer 2

Have you considered using names queries? You could always do something like this:

class DomainClass {
    // ... class members

    static namedQueries = {
        myList { params->
            // put your complicated logic here
        }
    }
}

Then you can just replace your calls to DomainClass.list() with DomainClass.myList.list().