why is grails not populating data via bootstrap

Question

I have the following bootstrap class

import shoppingsolutionproject.Category;
import shoppingsolutionproject.Item

class BootStrap {

    def dataSource

    def init = { servletContext ->
        new Category(description: 'Car').save()
        new Category(description: 'Truck').save()
        new Item(productNumber:1, name:"First Product", description: "This is the first product I'm adding for testing",
                 shippingCost: 4.99, url: '/first', retailPrice: 19.99, salePrice: 16.99, category: 'Car').save()
        new Item(productNumber:2, name:"Second Product", description: "This is the second product I'm adding for testing",
                shippingCost: 4.99, url: '/second', retailPrice: 19.99, category: 'Truck').save()
        new Item(productNumber:3, name:"First/Second Product", description: "This is the first/second(so third) product I'm adding for testing",
                shippingCost: 4.99, url: '/second', retailPrice: 17.99, category: 'Truck').save()
    }
    def destroy = {
    }
}

when I startup grails though, I don't have the categories or Items pre-populated... any idea why?

Answer 1

Most likely you have validation errors.

The quickest way to verify this is to add failOnError: true to your .save() like this: .save(failOnError: true).

That should show you lots of things that are failing due to validation errors.