Extract a Grails Common package that can be shared between GORM & Grails

[jdaugherty]

Feature description

There are several utility classes from the Grails 7 migration that have been duplicated between GORM & Grails Core. Since GORM is not meant to depend on Grails Core, we should introduce a common library dependency to avoid code duplication.

Initially, this would include:

1. A common interface for @Validateable & @GormValidateable
2. The various org.grails.asm.* classes that were copied from Spring to support annotation reading.

[jeffscottbrown]

Since GORM is not meant to depend on Grails Core, we should introduce a common library dependency to avoid code duplication.

grails-datastore-gorm-support currently has api dependencies on grails-core and grails-bootstrap (grails-datastore-gorm-support/build.gradle), and compile time dependencies on grails-web-common and grails-web-url-mappings (grails-datastore-gorm-support/build.gradle).

Do you anticipate that all of those dependencies would be removed?

[jdaugherty]

Since GORM is not meant to depend on Grails Core, we should introduce a common library dependency to avoid code duplication.

grails-datastore-gorm-support currently has api dependencies on grails-core and grails-bootstrap (grails-datastore-gorm-support/build.gradle), and compile time dependencies on grails-web-common and grails-web-url-mappings (grails-datastore-gorm-support/build.gradle).

Do you anticipate that all of those dependencies would be removed?

It looks like before they were dependencies with explicit exclusions so they could be used in other projects. I assume we should add those exclusions back, but have not dug into it too deeply.

[matrei]

Two classes that have been "temporarily" copied to grails-views-gradle-plugin to decouple grails-views and are candidates for moving to grails-common are:

• https://github.com/grails/grails-core/blob/7.0.x/grails-bootstrap/src/main/groovy/grails/util/GrailsNameUtils.java
• https://github.com/grails/grails-gradle-plugin/blob/7.0.x/src/main/groovy/org/grails/gradle/plugin/util/SourceSets.groovy