Grails Controller Action Abstract Command Object Parameter

Question

Is there any support for using abstract command objects in controller action parameters? Then depending on the given parameters in a JSON request it would select the correct command object?

For example something like:

class SomeController {

    def someAction(BaseCommand cmd){
        // cmd could be instance of ChildCommandOne or ChildCommandTwo
    }

    class BaseCommand {
        String paramOne
    }

    class ChildCommandOne extends BaseCommand {
        String paramTwo
    }

    class ChildCommandTwo extends BaseCommand {
        String paramThree
    }

}

As of now I've been using request.JSON to detect the passed in parameters and instantiate the correct Command object. Is that my only option to handle this sort of case?

EDIT :

To clarify the use case here. I have two domain models that share the same base class domain model and I'm modeling the inheritance in the database using the default table-per-hierarchy model.

In my case, one of the child domain models Model A requires a non-nullable String called body, that is a Text entry, while the other Model B requires a non-nullable String called directUrl. These represent announcements that can be made on the platform. Model A being a write in entry that contains the announcement body while Model B represents a link to a third party site that contains the actual announcement.

In these sort of scenarios I've traditionally put an if statement in the controller action that determines which related command object to instantiate but I am hoping for a cleaner method.

Answer 1

It won't work this way. Grails needs a concrete class (with default public constructor) to bind request params to a command object instance. Therefore this class is to be defined explicitely as action's argument.