replacing gsp-resources

[Scott Ingram]

My Grails 2.2 project uses http://grails.org/plugin/gsp-resources which I now need to replace as I am upgrading to Grails 3.1

I can't find an existing replacement.  (Is there one?)  So, I need to roll my own.

I hope to extend asset-pipeline and use grails.gsp.PageRenderer to convert myJavaScript.js.gsp into myJavaScript.js which does lots of fun things like database and GORM calls.

But after reading its documentation, I found this page https://github.com/bertramdev/grails-asset-pipeline/wiki/Why-asset-pipeline-over-grails-resources-plugin

with this comment that concerns me: 

"In production, the asset-pipeline compiles your assets on war create."

Is the "war create" phase fully empowered with access to all the capabilities of my app, including GSP rendering, GORM, and LDAP ? 

thanks,

Scott

[Sergio Michels]

Hi Scott,

I've never used this plugin that you mentioned (gsp-resources), but I'm wondering how it works... Can you give an use-case for generating javascript based on a GSP with database info? Do you need to create a javascript per request, or the requisite is to generate it once on startup? 

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Sérgio Michels

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[Scott Ingram]

Hi Sérgio,

In my single-page web app, my JavaScript uses a lot of static information stored the database, like countries, MPAA movie ratings, or a nested tree of movie genre/sub-genres, etc.  While there is also a lot of data that I pull over in real-time via AJAX calls, the static data goes through gsp-resources.  I have a gsp that instantiates domain objects, makes SQL select statements, etc, uses <g:tags> to format it all into JavaScript, which gsp-resources writes into dictionary.js once on startup / war-create.

thanks,

Scott