1.1 What's new in Grails 3.1? - Reference Documentation
Authors: Graeme Rocher, Peter Ledbrook, Marc Palmer, Jeff Brown, Luke Daley, Burt Beckwith, Lari Hotari
Version: 3.1.6
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1.1 What's new in Grails 3.1?
Grails 3.1 includes the following new features.Spring Boot 1.3 and Spring 4.2
Grails 3.1 has been upgraded to Spring Boot 1.3 and Spring 4.2.1.1.1 Improvements to Grails 3 Profiles
Profile Publishing and Repositories
The following improvements are available in Grails profiles:- Profiles are now published as regular JAR files to any Maven compatible repository (Artifactory, Nexus etc.).
- Additional profiles can be created easily with the new create-profile command.
- Profiles can now contribute to the generation of the build
- Profiles can now have one or many features
1.1.2 REST API and AngularJS Profiles
REST Profile
A new profile is available designed for the creation of pure REST applications without a UI.To create a REST application use therest-api
profile as an argument to create-app:$ grails create-app myapp --profile=rest-api
In earlier milestones this profile was named web-api. The profile has been renamed rest-api
which more appropriately describes its purpose.
Then start interactive mode to see the available commands for the profile:$ cd myapp $ grails
create-domain-resource
- Creates a domain class annotated with the Resource annotation)create-restful-controller
- Creates a controller that extends RestfulController.
JSON and Markup Views
The REST profile includes the ability to define JSON and Markup views and thebuild.gradle
features the ability to compile these views for production use.The REST profile also creates JSON views to render the index
action and common commands such as generate-views have been overridden to generate JSON views.AngularJS Profile
An initial version of the AngularJS profile is now available, making it easier to create and integrate AngularJS with Grails 3 applications.To create a Grails 3 AngularJS application use theangular
profile as an argument to create-app:$ grails create-app myapp --profile=angular
$ cd myapp $ grails
create-ng-component
, create-ng-controller
etc. that help you get going creating an AngularJS application.The build.gradle
is also preconfigured with the necessary Gradle plugins to integrate AngularJS with Asset Pipeline. The created Angular application can be found in grails-app/assets/javascripts
.
1.1.3 GORM 5 Suite
Grails 3.1 ships with GORM 5 which is a brand new release of GORM supporting the following technologies:- Hibernate 3, 4 and 5 - for SQL databases GORM for Hibernate now supports the latest Hibernate 5.x release
- MongoDB 3.x - GORM for MongoDB has been upgraded to the MongoDB 3.x Java driver and supports codec based persistence
- Neo4j 2.3.x - GORM for Neo4j has been significantly improved and support the latest release of Neo4j
- Cassandra - GORM for Cassandra supports the latest 2.0.x drivers
1.1.4 Plugin Publishing Plugins
New Gradle plugins are available to simplify publishing of plugins and profiles.To utilize the plugin apply theorg.grails.grails-plugin-publish
plugin (after any existing Grails plugins for Gradle):apply plugin: "org.grails.grails-plugin" apply plugin: "org.grails.grails-plugin-publish"
grails-profile-publish
plugin can be used instead:apply plugin: "org.grails.grails-profile" apply plugin: "org.grails.grails-profile-publish"
grailsPublish { user = 'user' key = 'key' githubSlug = 'foo/bar' license { name = 'Apache-2.0' } title = "My Plugin Title" desc = "My Plugin Description" developers = [johndoe:"John Doe"] }
user
and key
are your Bintray credentials. With this done you can continue to use bintrayUpload
to publish your plugin. In addition, if you wish to update the Grails plugin portal, you simply need to configure your grails.org
credentials:grailsPublish { … portalUser = "..." portalPassword = "..." }
notifyPluginPortal
to update the Grails.org Plugins website:gradle notifyPluginPortal