you sure its triggering maybe put a info log in your after method?

Yup, for sure it's triggered. I logged the view before and after and it was updated properly. I even had debugger breakpoints working as expected.

seems like they have some script you need to run? https://grails.github.io/grails-spring-security-ui/4.0.x/index.html#customization

Not quite, those scripts will add

.gsp

files to my project which allow me to override the view content. I am asking how to override the view itself, not just the content. For example, when the

UserController#edit

action is accessed it renders the content from

/view/user/edit.gsp

I need it render the content of

/view/inertia/json.gson

. So far the only solution seems to be just re-writing the whole security-ui plugin and manually changing all render methods to use renderInertia, or instead or returning a raw model from the controller I again need to call renderInertia manually.

it says it lets you override the controller too

Yes, overriding the controller does work, but it's not a great solution since the only thing I actually need to change is the view, not any of the logic. I would prefer to be able to just use the existing controller instead of copy+pasting each controller+method from the plugin. The only things I end up changing in the overridden controller are the return and render statements, all the rest of the logic is identical.

it sounds like you need to change logic tho? — how it renders is not part of controller scope?

I'm not sure what you mean by

it sounds like you need to change logic tho? — how it renders is not part of controller scope?

since the only thing I actually need to change is the view, not any of the logic <-- seems to conflict with: rendering should either be a gsp or a gson depending on the request. — on the request to me is controller domain, but i’m no pro was just reading the docs and saw that ;-).

gson is a json response for ajax requests, gsp is an html response for a standard browser navigation request. That's just content negotiation standard