Inject grails application configuration into service

Question

I\'m creating a grails service that will interact with a 3rd party REST API via a Java library. The Java library requires credentials for the REST API by means of a url, use

Answer 1

The grailsApplication object is available within services, allowing this:

package example

import com.example.ExampleApiClient;

class ExampleService {

    def grailsApplication

    def relevantMethod() {

        def client = new ExampleApiClient(
            grailsApplication.config.apiCredentials.baseUrl
            grailsApplication.config.apiCredentials.username,
            grailsApplication.config.apiCredentials.password
        )

        return client.action();
    }
}