Wiki¶
This plugin is an enhanced version of Peter Ledbrooks "grails dto plugin":http://www.grails.org/plugin/dto
Summary of enhancements¶
- updated dozer dependency to latest version (5.3.2)
- dtos are generated with the version property included
- to exclude the version property annotate the class with @DtoNoVersion
- fields may be annotated with @DtoIdOnly, which generates not the association itself but only the id of the association
- all fields annotated with @DtoEquality annotation, will be part of generated hashCode and equals method
- to let a dto class implement extra interfaces, annotate the domain class with @DtoImplements
- to ignore an association, annotate the field with @DtoIgnore
- experimental
fromDTOmethod, which converts the dto back in a domain object, honoring existing domain instances