Where to put a Constants class that is accessible throughout my Grails app?

Question

I have a simple question but the google and stackoverflow results didn't satisfy me at all.

How can I define a Constants class like:

public class Constants {
    public static final int SYSTEM_USER_ID = 1;
}

that can be called everywhere with Constants.SYSTEM_USER_ID

I tried it in grails-app/utils and src/java but for example I couldn't access inside a Service class.

Answer 1

You might consider putting these constants into Config.groovy rather than a class. One advantage of this approach is that you can specify per-environment values for these constants. You can read the values of these using either the implicit grailsApplication variable or the ConfigurationHolder class.

Answer 2

You need to put your Constants class into a package. Grails can't find the class if its not in a package itself.