General

  • Use protected and final for methods in a controller that are not actions

  • Coding style: "the shortest the better", until you lower expressiveness

  • Use @GrailsCompileStatic or @CompileStatic everywhere

  • Always stateless actions, use no sessions

  • Avoid services to implement Controller traits

  • Do not annotate with @Transactional anything but controller actions

  • General rules:

    • Use final when applicable

    • Do not repeat yourself

    • keep symbols scope low

    • local variable names short

    • Explicit public method parameters and member names

i18n

  • Do not centralize i18n, use gradle module i18n folders

class Book {
    String title
}

  • class name localisation "book.label = Libro"

  • class field name localisation "book.title.label = Título del libro"

  • In order to be efficient

    • do not start translations too early

    • when you have a global overview, start translating

    • keep most important label short, use the default namespace for them, specialized label can be long

  • used convention for your i18n:

    • prefix with "default." everything that will be reused

    • do not prefix class name translated

    • for labels, prefix with "label."

    • for actions, prefix with "action."

Configuration

  • Use enum, in code, for configuration

    • Static test is the king

    • Groovy Enums are more readable than XML, Json, Yaml …​ whatever

Security

  • Code managing security must be close to the place it is used

    • We do want to avoid centralisation for all concerns

      • Create a new domain per needs, avoid cluttering User class

      • Abstract concept should be avoided for security, static check is the king

  • Avoid complex rules that are not checked statically at compile time

  • Administrative rules must not rely on permission strings, a boolean value in an object is more explicite when testing in code…​

You are efficient …​

  • when you do not break everything for altering a functionality

  • when new stuffs can be added easily

  • when different concern are kept isolated (or orthogonal, not influencing each other)