Tag Archives: meta-programming

Using Groovy AST to Add Common Properties to Grails Domain Classes

Posted on November 9, 2011 by Geoff Lane

Groovy offers a lot of runtime meta-programming capabilities that allow you to add reusable functionality in a shared fashion. Grails plugins make use of this ability to enhance your project. One of the things that you can’t do with runtime … Continue reading →

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DRYing Grails Criteria Queries

Posted on September 2, 2009 by Geoff Lane

When you’re writing code, Don’t Repeat Yourself. Now say that 5 times. *rimshot* One of the things that I find myself repeating a lot of in many business apps is queries. It’s common to have a rule or filter that … Continue reading →

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Coffee DSL Redone With Meta-Programming

Posted on January 7, 2008 by Geoff Lane

In a previous post I wrote about DSLs as Jargon. I implemented a simple Coffee DSL that would allow code to parse an order written by a human and turn it into a domain model. I used a fairly basic … Continue reading →

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