IntelliJ IDEA 2017 - for Grails 3 multi module project

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Permanently deleted user

Created October 02, 2017 15:58

All,

I have a multi-module (each module contains the gsp files inside the same module, so that they can be used as individual plugins) Grails3 project using version 3.1.16, build on Gradle distribution.

I imported the parent project which contains the settings.gradle that has all the plugins needed to be included.

When I run the main application, the application is starting up. But I have the below 2 issues:

1. The RequestDispatcherServlet is unable to resolve the pages (.gsp files ) present in the plugins.

2. The main application fetches the plugins as jars not as source code i.e resources ( .groovy) files. Due to this, any changes made to files in plugins are not being picked up at compile time.

PS: I am new to IntelliJ, using a IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate edition - trial version.

Any help, highly appreciated.

Thanks

3 comments

Serge Baranov

Created October 02, 2017 16:20

If the issue is IntelliJ IDEA specific and your project works fine from the command line Gradle/Grails, please file an issue at https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issues/IDEA and attach a small sample to reproduce.

Permanently deleted user

Created October 02, 2017 16:36

Hi Serge Baranov,

Thanks for responding. The project works fine on command line. I would raise an issue at the link you have mentioned.

Permanently deleted user

Created October 05, 2017 10:57

Hi Serge,

The issue have now been resolved. I was earlier adding the plugins as dependencies in build.gradle. On changing it to the below worked. (For a sample project I created, to send a post as you suggested)

grails {
    plugins {
        exploded = true
        compile project(':plugin')
    }
}

My current project has multiple modules with the below project structure:

|MainProject
-|ParentApp
-|build.gradle contains................
-|plugins{
  compile project(':plugin1')
  compile project(':plugin2')
  compile project(':plugin3')
  compile project(':plugin4')
    }
-|plugin1
-|build.gradle contains................
plugins{
  compile project(':plugin2')
  compile project(':plugin3')
}
-|plugin2
-|build.gradle contains................
plugins{
  compile project(':plugin1')
  compile project(':plugin2')
}
It has been set up as such so that it works as a whole application when running application as ParentApp or with certain fragments when running application as either of the applications.
If I am using ParentApp to run-app, is it enough if I change the build.gradle to have the plugins in plugin{} block or do I need to change it for all the plugins i.e adding attribute exploded= true & moving compile project(':anotherProject') from dependencies to plugins block ?

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