Taggable Plugin

This plugin provides an alternative to the Acts as Taggable hosted at grails.org and with the following features.

• Classes can be made taggable by implementing the org.grails.taggable.Taggable interface
• Method chaining can be used to add tags
• The table name the domain classes use is customizable
• Utilizes extensive caching to improve performance
• Property use of packages to avoid domain conflicts

Requirements

Grails Version: 1.1 and above JDK: 1.5 and above

Installation

grails install-plugin taggable

Usage

Implement the Taggable interface:

import org.grails.taggable.*
class Vehicle implements Taggable {
}

Add some tags:

def v = Vehicle.get(1)
v.addTag("red")
 .addTag("sporty")
 .addTag("expensive")

Query:

def v = Vehicle.get(1)
println v.tags
def vehicles = Vehicle.findAllByTag("sporty")
def count = Vehicle.countByTag("sporty")

Customized Table names in Config.groovy:

grails.taggable.tag.table="MY_TAGS"
grails.taggable.tagLink.table="MY_TAG_LINKS"