Grails access value from belongsTo in domain?

Question

I am working on a Grails project and I have a User domain model with the following:

class SecUser {

    transient springSecurityService

    String username
    String email
    String password
    boolean enabled
    boolean accountExpired
    boolean accountLocked
    boolean passwordExpired

    static belongsTo = [area:Areas] 

    .....
}

I am also using the springSecurityUI and I have this on the create user view:

<s2ui:textFieldRow readonly='yes' name='area' labelCode='user.area.label' bean="${user}"
                                labelCodeDefault='Area' value="${area}"/>

When I see the create view instead of seeing the box for area populate with the area of the current logged in user I can see the following:

com.testapp.Areas : 1

I am presuming this is the id of the Dept for this user but I want to show the actual value, how can I do this for relational objects?

Thanks for the help

EDIT.......

Below is my Areas class as it stands

class Areas {

String name

static hasMany = [users:SecUser]

}

EDIT...

I have now fixed this using:

value="${area.name}"

Answer 1

If you just want to display the actual id attribute, then you can do so like this:

<s2ui:textFieldRow readonly='yes' name='area' labelCode='user.area.label' bean="${user}"
                            labelCodeDefault='Area' value="${area?.id}"/>

Answer 2

com.testapp.Areas : 1 is the output of the default toString() method. To change the output, you need to write your own toString() on Areas.

class Areas {

    String toString() {
        "the actual string representation of my Areas object"
    }
}