Grails Goodness: Grouping URL Mappings

We can group URL mappings defined in grails-app/conf/UrlMappings.groovy using the group() method defined for the URL mapping DSL. The first argument is the first part of the URL followed by a closure in which we define mappings like we are used to.

Suppose we have defined the following two mappings in our UrlMappings.groovy file, both starting with /admin:

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// File: grails-app/conf/UrlMappings.groovy class UrlMappings {       static mappings = {         // Mappings starting both with /admin:         "/admin/report/$action?/$id?(.${format})?"(controller: 'report')         "/admin/users/$action?/$id?(.${format})?"(controller: 'userAdmin')           "/"(view:"/index")         "500"(view:'/error')     } }

We can rewrite this and use the group() method to get the following definition:

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// File: grails-app/conf/UrlMappings.groovy class UrlMappings {       static mappings = {         // Using grouping for mappings starting with /admin:         group("/admin") {             "/report/$action?/$id?(.${format})?"(controller: 'report')             "/users/$action?/$id?(.${format})?"(controller: 'userAdmin')         }           "/"(view:"/index")         "500"(view:'/error')     } }

When we use the createLink and link tags the group is taken into account. For example when we use <g:createLink controller="userAdmin"/> we get the following URL if the application name is sample: /sample/admin/users.

Code written with Grails 2.3.