Marc Palmer

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Bean-Fields plugin 0.6 released

I have released Bean-Fields plugin 0.6. This extremely handy plugin for Grails applications makes your data form GSPs DRY by centralizing the rendering and styling of your fields, handling <label> rendering, rendering appropriate HTML field based on property type, application of HTML max length constraints, rendering “required field” indicators, and rendering per-field errors. Rendering a whole bean’s worth of fields can be as simple as:

<bean:form beanName="book" properties="title, primaryAuthor.name, isbn"/>

Version 0.6 fixes a bunch of bugs related to rendering fields for nested property paths e.g. propertyName=”book.author.firstName” and introduces support for list / array properties eg “book.authors[3].firstName” (This was really quite painful to implement!). Radio groups are working properly now, and test coverage much improved – thanks to contribs from Antony Stubbs.

It also adds a user-definable threshold for whether a radio group or select list should be used for a field with an inList constraint.

Full list of resolved issues is here.