Using g.render in a grails service

Question

I\'m trying to use g.render in a grails service, but it appears that g is not provided to services by default. Is there a way to get the templating engine to render a view

Answer 1

Here's a solution that's similar to Stefan's, but a bit simpler

import org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins.web.taglib.ApplicationTagLib
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContext
import org.springframework.context.ApplicationContextAware

class MyService implements ApplicationContextAware {

    private ApplicationTagLib g

    void setApplicationContext(ApplicationContext applicationContext) {
        g = applicationContext.getBean(ApplicationTagLib)

        // now you have a reference to g that you can call render() on
    }
}