Whoops, my mistake, the approach in the other question does work, but the entity in question was separately being saved somewhere else. It also seems that you need an explicit flush
to make things work:
def withAutoTimestampSuppression(entity, closure) {
toggleAutoTimestamp(entity, false)
def result = closure()
toggleAutoTimestamp(entity, true)
result
}
def toggleAutoTimestamp(target, enabled) {
def applicationContext = (ServletContextHolder.getServletContext()
.getAttribute(ApplicationAttributes.APPLICATION_CONTEXT))
def closureInterceptor = applicationContext.getBean("eventTriggeringInterceptor")
def datastore = closureInterceptor.datastores.values().iterator().next()
def interceptor = datastore.getEventTriggeringInterceptor()
def listener = interceptor.findEventListener(target)
listener.shouldTimestamp = enabled
null
}
def createTestPerson() {
def luke = new Person(name: "Luke Skywalker")
withAutoTimestampSuppression(luke) {
def lastWeek = new Date().minus(7)
luke.dateCreated = lastWeek
luke.lastUpdated = lastWeek
luke.save(failOnError: true, flush: true)
}
}