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 couldn't get the above techniques to work, the call to GrailsDomainBinder.getMapping always returned null???

However...

You can use the fixtures plugin to set the dateCreated property on a domain instance

The initial loading will not do it...

fixture {
    // saves to db, but date is set as current date :(
    tryDate( SomeDomain, dateCreated: Date.parse( 'yyyy-MM-dd', '2011-12-25') )
}

but if you follow up with a post handler

post {
    // updates the date in the database :D
    tryDate.dateCreated = Date.parse( 'yyyy-MM-dd', '2011-12-01')
}

Relevant part of the fixtures docs here

AFAIK fixtures don't work for unit testing, although the plugin authors may add unit testing support in the future.