Grails Jasypt plugin Column maxsize always creates varchar instead of text for mysql

Question

I'm trying to increase the size of the encrypted column

static mapping = {
        col1  type: GormEncryptedStringType
}

static constraints = {
        col1(nullable:true)
}

It always generates a varchar(255) in MySQL while I want it as a text type. I tried adding maxSize:65000 but then it creates a varchar(65000) instead of text.

This field can contain a lot of data and ideally I would want it to be LONGTEXT field.

For other non-encypted fields, I successfully used type:'text' and it worked but I am stumped since this is an encrypted field and I cant add another type.

Any help is much appreciated.

Answer 1

Type is the Hibernate Type. In addition to that trying adding sqlType which as the name implies is the underlying SQL column type.

static mapping = {
        col1  type: GormEncryptedStringType, sqlType:'TEXT'
}

Also, depending on your 'sql type', you can also add length to change your column size

static mapping = {
        col1  type: GormEncryptedStringType, sqlType:'varchar', length:400
}