Automatic instantiation of embedded instances

[Jacob Severson]

Hi All,

I did some searching and couldn't find anything on this, so I apologize if
I missed a conversation about this somewhere.

I'm defining a relationship of collections of other domain instances and
trying to embed them such as:

List<City> cities
static embedded = ['cities']

When grails tries to bind data to an embedded field,
GrailsDataBinder.autoInstantiateEmbeddedInstance(Class<?> type) tries to
get a new instance of the field's class without checking if the type is
instantiable.

I'm wondering if this is by design and I'm missing something or if this is
something that should be fixed?

Thanks,
Jacob