Grails projection on arithmetic expression with executeQuery()?

Question

I need to get a sum of all items sold per order per store. I am running a sum() on expression using executeQuery(). It works fine as shown below but I wanted to know if ther

Answer 1

As of Grails 2.2, SQL projections are supported without having to drop down to the Hibernate Criteria API. Note that a formula mapping may still be more desirable, but with this you can directly implement the sum('soldPrice * soldQuantity') style projection as per your question.

http://grails.org/doc/latest/guide/single.html#criteria