Accessing the raw body of a PUT or POST request

Question

I am implementing a RESTful API in Grails, and use a custom authentication scheme that involves signing the body of the request (in a manner similar to Amazon\'s S3 authenti

Answer 1

As can be seen here

http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/GRAILS-2017

just turning off grails automatic handling of XML makes the text accessible in controllers. Like this

class EventsController {   

static allowedMethods = [add:'POST']

def add = {
    log.info("Got request " + request.reader.text)      
    render "OK"
}}

Best, Anders