Making Grails form development DRYer

Question

When using Grails, the GSP code to render each form field looks something like this:

Answer 1

Using the bean-field plugin. Your code will become:

<bean:withBean beanName="person">
    <bean:field property="username" label="Login Name:"/>
    <bean:field property="userRealName" label="Full Name:"/>
    <bean:field property="passwd" label="Password:"/>
</bean:withBean>

Can you find a DRYer solution?

Answer 2

Yes, bean-fields plugin is very DRY… your 20 lines can be replaced with one line:

<bean:form beanName="person" properties="username, userRealName, passwd”/>

(Assuming you have i18n properties set)

Answer 3

For those who read this thread in future - For grails 2.x branch Grails fields plugin is recommended over bean fields, its actually successor of bean-fields and provides flexibility to override default templates