deleting plugins views (gsp) when building the war

Question

We are using various plugins in our grails application (like logging, spring security core, ui, acl and many others). Now these plugins come with default gsps (in the views

Answer 1

I answered this question on the Grails mailing list. http://grails.1312388.n4.nabble.com/deleting-plugins-views-gsp-when-building-the-war-td4560517.html (The answer hasn't yet shown up in nabble)

You can remove/add files from/to a war file in the eventCreateWarStart event specified in scripts/_Events.groovy file.

This might work:

filename: scripts/_Events.groovy

eventCreateWarStart = { warName, stagingDir ->
   Ant.delete(dir: "${stagingDir}/WEB-INF/plugins/logging-0.1/grails-app/views")
   Ant.delete(dir: "${stagingDir}/WEB-INF/classes", includes:"gsp_logging*.*")
   Ant.delete(dir: "${stagingDir}/WEB-INF/plugins/spring-security-ui-0.1.2/grails-app/views")
   Ant.delete(dir: "${stagingDir}/WEB-INF/classes", includes:"gsp_springSecurityUi*.*")
}

I'm not sure if you could also remove plugin Controller classes without problems. We've used Filter classes to "disable" controllers provided by plugins.

As a side-note you can disable "development-only" plugins in the production environment by using the yet undocumented "grails.plugins.excludes" feature:

Example: in Config.groovy:

import grails.util.Environment

if(Environment.current == Environment.PRODUCTION) {
    grails.plugin.excludes = ['somePluginName']
}