android grais app,Convert grails app to plugin

Create the plugin descriptor, FooGrailsPlugin.groovy. The easiest way to do this is to rungrails create-plugin pluginname and copy the

generated file from there

delete everything from application.properties except the app.grails.version property

if you have jars in the lib directory that are available in a Maven repo, delete them and replace with BuildConfig.groovy dependencies

change any plugin and jar dependencies that are needed for development and testing but not when the plugin is installed to not be

exported, by adding export = false

If you need the _Install.groovy, _Uninstall.groovy, or _Upgrade.groovy scripts (you probably don’t) grab those from the dummy plugin from step 1 (but delete any you don’t need, they’re all

optional)

delete ApplicationResources.groovy if you aren’t using it and don’t depend on resources plugin

move code from BootStrap.groovy init() toFooGrailsPlugin.doWithApplicationContext

and/orFooGrailsPlugin.doWithDynamicMethods and destroy() to

FooGrailsPlugin.onShutdown, and delete BootStrap.groovy

add a dependency for the release plugin in BuildConfig.groovy

delete everything but the log4j configuration from Config.groovy

delete UrlMappings.groovy unless you have exported mappings; only keep the added ones

move bean definitions from resources.groovy to FooGrailsPlugin.doWithSpring and delete resources.groovy

delete grails-app/i18n message bundle files unless you added messages; only keep the added ones

delete everything from grails-app/views that you don’t use (in particular error.gsp,index.gsp, and layouts/main.gsp)

delete everything from web-app that you don’t use (including WEB-INF xml and tld files)

now would be a great time to write those tests you’ve been meaning to get to

create one or more test applications to install the plugin into to ensure that it works as a plugin; consider scripting this

write documentation for how to use the plugin; at a minimum a README file, but Grails gdoc files would be much better (run grails doc

--init to get started)