Overriding dateCreated for testing in Grails

Question

Is there any way I can override the value of dateCreated field in my domain class without turning off auto timestamping?

I need to test controller and I ha

Answer 1

As of Grails 3 and GORM 6 you can tap into AutoTimestampEventListener to execute a Runnable that temporarily ignores all or select timestamps.

The following is a small snippet I use in my integration tests where this is necessary:

void executeWithoutTimestamps(Class domainClass, Closure closure){
    ApplicationContext applicationContext = Holders.findApplicationContext()
    HibernateDatastore mainBean = applicationContext.getBean(HibernateDatastore)
    AutoTimestampEventListener listener = mainBean.getAutoTimestampEventListener()

    listener.withoutTimestamps(domainClass, closure)
}

Then in your case you could do the following:

executeWithoutTimestamps(BlogMessage, {
    Date someValidDate = new Date() - (20*365)
    BlogMessage message = new BlogMessage()
    message.dateCreated = someValidDate
    message.save(flush: true)
})