Is it possible in grails to disable persistence of a domain class?

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To get around this I have to move such classes to src/groovy. It would be nice to have all of my domain model classes in the domains directory rather than split them up.

Update 1: This is a popular (look for GRAILS-2515) requested feature on the Grails Jira page. If anyone is interested in this feature you can vote and track it here.

Update on GRAILS-2515: static mapWith = "none" should do the trick in 1.3.5.

don't call save on the object?? Not really certain the question is clear... maybe providing more context might be helpful — Aaron Saunders, Sep 26 '10 at 02:48
@Rob Hruska - Thats what I'm doing as a workaround (read the first line of my question). — , Sep 26 '10 at 16:43

mfloryan · Accepted Answer · 2010-10-05T08:40:18.563

It is only possible to mark certain properties on the domain object as 'transient' so that they are not persisted to the database. Otherwise, all domain objects are persisted.

UPDATE

With the most recent release of Grails 1.3.5 (released Oct 4 2010) it is now possible to disable persistence of a domain class. Add the following to the domain class:

static mapWith = "none"

There is a JIRA ticket with further details.

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 26 '10 at 20:16

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If I might add 2 words to your question: against convention! Grails is all about convention over configuration and doing what you'd like to do is against it.

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convention works 95% of time. but sometimes a few brave ones have to break away from it :) – Sep 27 '10 at 00:21
Yeah... and then there comes the new developer, hoping someone knew what they were doing and faces the imminent disappointment... – Matthias Hryniszak Sep 27 '10 at 11:57
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The concept is "convention over [preferred to] configuration", not "convention no configuration possible". – Fletch Sep 28 '10 at 08:45
You're right... but still conforming to the convention makes life easier for everybody, don't you think? – Matthias Hryniszak Sep 29 '10 at 10:32

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 26 '10 at 05:48

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No. It is not.

answered Sep 26 '10 at 05:48

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Is it possible in grails to disable persistence of a domain class?

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