Grails, GORM, update method persists object before calling save()

Question

I have a domain Class DailyBooking and a generated Controller. In the update function I'm calling userService.computeFlexTime(dailyBookingInstance). There I want to get the current persisted entry from DailyBooking (from the database):

DailyBooking currentEntry = DailyBooking.findByUserAndDate(dailyBookingInstance.user, dailyBookingInstance.date)

From my understanding I should get the current persisted entry from the database because I'm calling the service before the save statement in the update function. But when I actually debug, currentEntry has values from the updated object. Additionally the new values are already written in the database without calling save.

update method:

if(dailyBookingInstance.end != null){
        userService.computeFlexTime(dailyBookingInstance)
    }

    dailyBookingInstance.save flush:true

Another question is why does this method has an effect on the dailyBookingInstance in my Controller since its not returned? I think in Java I would have to work with ref or smth. like that.

Answer 1

Try with the getPersistentValue function