Grails Bootstrapping Issue

I'm sure this is a newbie issue, but it's interesting to me.

I've created the Race applications from the book, "Getting Started With Grails, 2nd Edition" by Jason Rudolph.  After creating the Runner domain class, I add "package racetrack", then I try to bootstrap some data.

   1:  class BootStrap {

   2:  def init = { servletContext ->

   3:  def jane = new Runner(firstName:'Jane',lastName:'Doe')

   4:  jane.save()

   5:  }

   6:  def destroy = {}

   7:  }

But, when I run the application, I don't get any data populated and no error.

The answer was in #GRAILS-3842.  In order to create the data, you MUST set the values for "ALL PROPERTIES THAT ARE NOT NULLABLE".

So, when you create a new Runner(), you must supply values for all properties or mark the properties as "nullable:true".  Also, there is a new parameter for the save() method, save(failOnError:true).  This will cause the compilation to fail if the save() method in Bootstrap does not work.

Here is the new code:

   1:  class Runner {

   2:   

   3:  static constraints = {

   4:      firstName(blank:false)

   5:      lastName(blank:false)

   6:      dateOfBirth(nullable:true)

   7:      gender(inList:["M", "F"])

   8:      address(nullable:true)

   9:      city(nullable:true)

  10:      state(nullable:true)

  11:      zipcode(nullable:true)

  12:      email(email:true)

  13:  }

  14:  static hasMany = [registrations:Registration]

  15:      String firstName

  16:      String lastName

  17:      Date dateOfBirth

  18:      String gender

  19:      String address

  20:      String city

  21:      String state

  22:      String zipcode

  23:      String email

  24:      String toString(){

  25:          "${lastName}, ${firstName} (${email})"

  26:      }

  27:   

  28:   

  29:   

  30:   

  31:   

  32:   

  33:  class BootStrap {

  34:   

  35:      def init = { servletContext ->

  36:          def jane = new Runner(firstName:'Jane', lastName:'Doe', gender:'F',city:'Atlanta',state:'GA',email:'jane@toto.com')

  37:          jane.save(failOnError:true)

  38:          def joe = new Runner(firstName:'Joe', lastName:'Blow', gender:'M',city:'Atlanta',state:'GA',email:'joe@toto.com')

  39:          joe.save(failOnError:true)

  40:          def larry = new Runner(firstName:'Larry', lastName:'Eisenstein', gender:'M',city:'Lilburn',state:'GA',email:'larrye@toto.com')

  41:          larry.save(failOnError:true)

  42:   

  43:      }  

  44: