How do you bulk delete records in Grails/GORM?

Question

I have a table which has records that need to be periodically cleared according to a set of criteria.

I was expecting that I could use the criteria builder to just delet

Answer 1

If you want to avoid HQL I'd suggest using GORM list(), delete() and Groovy's spread operator:

def agencyList = Agency.createCriteria().list {
    eq("agency", "XXX")  
}
agencyList*.delete()