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

I don't think http-builder is a Groovy module, but rather an external API on top of apache http-client so you do need to import classes and download a bunch of APIs. You are better using Gradle or @Grab to download the jar and dependencies:

@Grab(group='org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder', module='http-builder', version='0.7.1' )
import groovyx.net.http.*
import static groovyx.net.http.ContentType.*
import static groovyx.net.http.Method.*

Note: since the CodeHaus site went down, you can find the JAR at (https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder/http-builder)