Following is an example of unidirectional one-to-many relationship:

class Employee {
    String name
    static hasMany = [roles: Role]
}
 
class Role {
    String name
}

How can we find all the employees with a particular role – “Grails Developer”?

Role role = Role.findByName("Grails Developer")

One way of doing this can be:

Employee.list().findAll{role in it.roles}

This is an inefficient way since, we are fetching all the records from the database every time. Also, in case we are showing paginated view of results, we will need to manage pagination ourself.

A better way of this will be using createCriteria() query:

List<Employee> employees = Employee.createCriteria().list{
    roles{
        eq('id', role.id)
    }	
    firstResult(20)
    maxResults(20)	
}

I am wondering what will be the query in case Role.groovy is an enum.

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