Can I use grails tag outside of GSP?

Question

For example, i can put

inside a .gsp file and it will work nicely.

Bu

Answer 1

Inject the grailsApplication into your service/filter.

def grailsApplication

And get the Spring bean.

def g = grailsApplication.mainContext.getBean('org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins.web.taglib.ApplicationTagLib')
def userShow = g.createLink(controller: 'user', action: 'show')