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

I'm using something like this for an initial import/migration.

Taking gabe's post as a starter (which didn't work for me Grails 2.0), and looking at the old source code for ClosureEventTriggeringInterceptor in Grails 1.3.7, I came up with this:

class BootStrap {

    private void changeTimestamping(Object domainObjectInstance, boolean shouldTimestamp) {
        Mapping m = GrailsDomainBinder.getMapping(domainObjectInstance.getClass())
        m.autoTimestamp = shouldTimestamp
    }

    def init = { servletContext ->

        changeTimestamping(new Message(), false)

        def fooMessage = new Message()
        fooMessage.dateCreated = new Date("11/5/1955")
        fooMessage.lastUpdated = new Date()
        fooMessage.save(failOnError, true)

        changeTimestamping(new Message(), true)
    }
}