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| In this case study, we re-develop part of the adventure game in the Grails web framework. This will demonstrate the productivity gains possible from a good, well-design application development framework, and further emphasizes the power of the Groovy programming language and the so-called lightweight enterprise frameworks. The presentation has been designed as an // | In this case study, we re-develop part of the adventure game in the Grails web framework. This will demonstrate the productivity gains possible from a good, well-design application development framework, and further emphasizes the power of the Groovy programming language and the so-called lightweight enterprise frameworks. The presentation has been designed as an // | ||
| - | The presentation was inspired by case-study presented in Chapter 16 " | + | The presentation was inspired by case-study presented in Chapter 16 " |
| ===== A Short Introduction to Grails ===== | ===== A Short Introduction to Grails ===== | ||
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| We shall take the example that we have developed over the previous four case studies, and re-implement //Player// and //Item// administration for an adventure game in Grails. | We shall take the example that we have developed over the previous four case studies, and re-implement //Player// and //Item// administration for an adventure game in Grails. | ||
| - | * [[at-m42: | + | * [[at-m42: |
| * [[#Step 2: Create project]] | * [[#Step 2: Create project]] | ||
| + | * [[#Step 3: Run Application]] | ||
| + | * [[#Step 4: Create First Domain Class]] | ||
| + | * [[#Step 5: Add some properties and a Controller]] | ||
| + | * Further steps ... to be written! | ||
| - | An index to the source code for all the examples in this case study is [[/ | + | An index to the source code for all the examples in this case study is [[/ |
| - | ===== Step 2: Create project | + | ==== Step 2: Create project ==== |
| The first step in any system development with Grails is the creation of a project. In my case, this will be //game// project. Change to the development directory then issue the command '' | The first step in any system development with Grails is the creation of a project. In my case, this will be //game// project. Change to the development directory then issue the command '' | ||
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| **Figure 2**: The files generated by '' | **Figure 2**: The files generated by '' | ||
| + | An explanation of what all these files are is shown in Table 1. | ||
| + | *Table 2*: Directory structure of the '' | ||
| + | ^ Directory ^ Content ^ | ||
| + | | '' | ||
| + | | < | ||
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| + | | '' | ||
| + | | '' | ||
| + | | '' | ||
| + | | '' | ||
| + | | '' | ||
| + | | < | ||
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| + | | '' | ||
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| + | ==== Step 3: Run Application ==== | ||
| + | <cli prompt=">"> | ||
| + | e: | ||
| + | Welcome to Grails 1.1 - http:// | ||
| + | Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0 | ||
| + | Grails home is set to: d: | ||
| + | |||
| + | Base Directory: E: | ||
| + | Running script d: | ||
| + | Environment set to development | ||
| + | [mkdir] Created dir: e: | ||
| + | [groovyc] Compiling 6 source files to e: | ||
| + | [mkdir] Created dir: e: | ||
| + | [native2ascii] Converting 11 files from E: | ||
| + | | ||
| + | | ||
| + | Running Grails application.. | ||
| + | Server running. Browse to http:// | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Now connect to http:// | ||
| + | |||
| + | {{: | ||
| + | |||
| + | | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==== Step 4: Create First Domain Class ==== | ||
| + | |||
| + | Run command '' | ||
| + | <cli prompt=">"> | ||
| + | e: | ||
| + | Welcome to Grails 1.1 - http:// | ||
| + | Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0 | ||
| + | Grails home is set to: d: | ||
| + | |||
| + | Base Directory: E: | ||
| + | Running script d: | ||
| + | Environment set to development | ||
| + | Created DomainClass for Item | ||
| + | Created Tests for Item | ||
| + | e: | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Creates a domain class '' | ||
| + | <code groovy 1|Listing 2: Domain class Item.groovy (at-m42/ | ||
| + | class Item { | ||
| + | |||
| + | static constraints = { | ||
| + | } | ||
| + | } | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | |||
| + | It also creates a '' | ||
| + | <code groovy 1|Listing 3: Test class for domain class Item.groovy (at-m42/ | ||
| + | import grails.test.* | ||
| + | |||
| + | class ItemTests extends GrailsUnitTestCase { | ||
| + | protected void setUp() { | ||
| + | super.setUp() | ||
| + | } | ||
| + | |||
| + | protected void tearDown() { | ||
| + | super.tearDown() | ||
| + | } | ||
| + | |||
| + | void testSomething() { | ||
| + | |||
| + | } | ||
| + | } | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | |||
| + | Unit test and integration tests can be run automatically from the command line using '' | ||
| + | |||
| + | ==== Step 4: Add some properties and a Controller ==== | ||
| + | |||
| + | Each domain class is simply a Plain-Old-Groovy-Object with one major difference. If we add some properties, these will be automatically persisted to a database. | ||
| + | <code groovy 1|Listing 4: Item class with properties (at-m42/ | ||
| + | class Item { | ||
| + | |||
| + | static constraints = { | ||
| + | } | ||
| + | | ||
| + | String name | ||
| + | String description | ||
| + | Integer weight | ||
| + | |||
| + | String toString() { return " | ||
| + | } | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | |||
| + | If we now add a controller, we will be able to create some objects via the web interface. | ||
| + | <cli prompt=">"> | ||
| + | e: | ||
| + | |||
| + | Welcome to Grails 1.1 - http:// | ||
| + | Licensed under Apache Standard License 2.0 | ||
| + | Grails home is set to: d: | ||
| + | |||
| + | Base Directory: E: | ||
| + | Running script d: | ||
| + | Environment set to development | ||
| + | Created Controller for Item | ||
| + | [mkdir] Created dir: E: | ||
| + | Created Tests for Item | ||
| + | e: | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | |||
| + | As you can see this creates a new controller | ||
| + | <code groovy 1|Listing 5: ItemController class (at-m42/ | ||
| + | class ItemController { | ||
| + | |||
| + | def index = { } | ||
| + | } | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | It also creates another '' | ||
| + | |||
| + | Before we use this, we'll make Grails generate the necessary views " | ||
| + | <code groovy 1|Listing 6: ItemController class with dynamic scaffolding (at-m42/ | ||
| + | class ItemController { | ||
| + | |||
| + | def scaffold = Item | ||
| + | } | ||
| + | </ | ||
| + | |||
| + | I found that at this step, I had to stop the running grails application, | ||
| + | |||
| + | After this runs, you will be able to browse to http:// | ||
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