Grails 2.5, Gorm, Date Error

Question

I created an employee domain class using java.util.Date for a birthday attribute. That was mapped to Datetime (date + time which I don't want) in my MySQL database. So I tried java.sql.Date which results in the right datatype in my table, unfortunately there is an error in my Grails application saying:

Could not find matching constructor for: java.sql.Date(java.util.Date)

domain class:

package sample

class Mitarbeiter {

    String name
    java.sql.Date geburtstag

    static constraints = {
       name()
       birthday()
    }
}

controller:

package sample

class MitarbeiterController {

    def scaffold = Mitarbeiter
}

Answer 1

I'm guessing that the controller scaffolding is not capable of matching the 2 dates.

What happens if you define the mapping like this (docs are here):

class Mitarbeiter {

    String name
    Date geburtstag

    static constraints = {
       name()
       birthday()
    }

    static mapping = {
        geburtstag sqlType: "date"
    }
}