OPI Blog
Learn from experts in their fields

Browsing Tags: Plugin

Apr 24, 2014
Reuse your Gradle logic across the enterprise
Gradle is a powerful and flexible build tool, not least because you can write custom tasks with ease by inlining your tasks as part of the build script. However, as with production code, build code ...
Validating Grails Configurations
When externalizing grails app configurations for multiple environments I want to ensure values are provided for all the required/expected properties.  So I wrote a plugin to help. Validating Expected and Required Properties Simply add something ...
Grails 2.2 – Publishing your Plugins as Maven Artifacts To Resolve Dependency Resolution Issues
Grails developers may have noticed that since version 2.1, there have been a lot of features added for Maven support. It probably won’t be long before Ivy is phased out, if this article is any ...
Feb 5, 2013
Introducing Maprest: A Grails Plugin for Customized and Dynamic REST Services
Out of the box, Grails comes with some nice converters for XML and JSON, allowing your REST services to easily render in either of these formats. But these have their limitations. Take, for example, a ...
Dec 17, 2012
Using Ant Paths with the Grails Resources Plugin
My current project is a single-page Grails application that contains a lot of static resources. I’m using the standard Resources plugin and have found myself spending a lot of time keeping the plugin’s config file ...
Jan 12, 2012
Generating Excel from Grails
Most developers do their best to avoid working in Excel, but it is often necessary to produce reports or other output in Excel format.  Often times we resort to simple CSV files, or raw data ...