Groovy built-in REST/HTTP client?

Question

I heard that Groovy has a built-in REST/HTTP client. The only library I can find is HttpBuilder, is this it?

Basically I\'m looking for a way to do

Answer 1

You can take advantage of Groovy features like with(), improvements to URLConnection, and simplified getters/setters:

GET:

String getResult = new URL('http://mytestsite/bloop').text

POST:

String postResult
((HttpURLConnection)new URL('http://mytestsite/bloop').openConnection()).with({
    requestMethod = 'POST'
    doOutput = true
    setRequestProperty('Content-Type', '...') // Set your content type.
    outputStream.withPrintWriter({printWriter ->
        printWriter.write('...') // Your post data. Could also use withWriter() if you don't want to write a String.
    })
    // Can check 'responseCode' here if you like.
    postResult = inputStream.text // Using 'inputStream.text' because 'content' will throw an exception when empty.
})

Note, the POST will start when you try to read a value from the HttpURLConnection, such as responseCode, inputStream.text, or getHeaderField('...').