Grails Service: Validation Errors and Rollback

controllerAndServiceValidationHandling.groovy

Validation Errors and Rollback
A common use case is to rollback a transaction if there are validation errors. For example consider this service:

import grails.validation.ValidationException
class AuthorService {

    void updateAge(id, int age) {
        def author = Author.get(id)
        author.age = age
        if (!author.validate()) {
            throw new ValidationException("Author is not valid", author.errors)
        }
    }
}

To re-render the same view that a transaction was rolled back in you can re-associate the errors with a refreshed instance before rendering:

import grails.validation.ValidationException
class AuthorController {

    def authorService

    def updateAge() {
        try {
            authorService.updateAge(params.id, params.int("age"))
        }
        catch (ValidationException e) {
            def author = Author.read(params.id)
            author.errors = e.errors
            render view: "edit", model: [author:author]
        }
    }
}