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Jim Gough
Jim Gough

Reputation: 168

Adding dateCreated field to existing object

I want to add a "dateCreated" field to an object that is already exiting, and the corresponding table already has several objects in it. When the dateCreated timestamp column is added the timestamp is set to '0000-00-00 00:00:00', but I need to set it to the actual dateCreated value that I call when I am at the groovy/grails level.

Is there a way to populate the new column with the correct 'dateCreated' value?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 283

Answers (1)

bschipp
bschipp

Reputation: 371

You may possibly be able to do this by setting a default value for the dateCreated field in your domain class?

eg.

class ExistingDomainObject {
    Date dateCreated = someFunctionToCalculateCorrectDateCreated()
}

Upvotes: 1

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