beforeInsert not triggered in grails + mongodb

Question

it looks like beforeInsert is never triggered and the password is stored as plain text in DB, I have a User domain-class like this:

class User {

    String email
    String name
    String surname
    String phone
    String password

    static constraints = {
        email(blank:false, email:true, unique:true)
        name(blank:false)
        surname(blank:false)
        phone(blank:false)
        password(blank:false, password:true)
    }

    def beforeInsert = { encodePassword() }

    def beforeUpdate() {
        if (isDirty('password')) {
            encodePassword()
        }
    }

    protected void encodePassword() {
        password = springSecurityService.encodePassword(password)
    }
}

Any idea of what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

It's weird and I don't know why, but this works, I changed the beforeInsert var to a method, and added the transient springSecurityService

class User {

    transient springSecurityService

    String email
    String name
    String surname
    String phone
    String password

    static constraints = {
        email(blank:false, email:true, unique:true)
        name(blank:false)
        surname(blank:false)
        phone(blank:false)
        password(blank:false, password:true)
    }

    def beforeInsert() {
        encodePassword()
    }

    def beforeUpdate() {
        if (isDirty('password')) {
            encodePassword()
        }
    }

    protected void encodePassword() {
        password = springSecurityService.encodePassword(password)
    }
}