Grails environments

Question

I couldn't find an answer in the documentation so I'm asking here.

In Grails when you create an app you get the Production, Development etc environments by default.

If you want to build a WAR for Production you can run either of these commands:

grails war

OR

grails -Dgrails.env=prod war

If you want to create a WAR for the development environment you use the command:

grails -Dgrails.env=dev war

My questions;

1) Can I use the word 'production' instead of 'prod' and use 'development' instead of 'dev'? I assume that 'prod' and 'dev' are just shorthand for 'production' and 'development', so I should be able to use either?

2) If so, if I introduce my own environment called 'Stage' can I create a shorthand for use in setting -Dgrails.env? Something like 'stg' for example.

Thanks.

Answer 1

1) Can I use the word 'production' instead of 'prod' and use 'development' instead of 'dev'? I assume that 'prod' and 'dev' are just shorthand for 'production' and 'development', so I should be able to use either?

The short answer is yes. You can use either the short name or full name of an environment to the grails.env parameter. The short and full names of the environments defined by Grails are shown below

short name|full name
prod      |PRODUCTION
dev       |DEVELOPMENT
test      |TEST

The value provided for grails.env is matched case-insensitively against the short and full name of all environments.

2) If so, if I introduce my own environment called 'Stage' can I create a shorthand for use in setting -Dgrails.env? Something like 'stg' for example.

No, the short names are stored within a private static field of grails.util.Environment, which you should not access