grailsApplication

Purpose

An instance of the api:org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsApplication class.

Examples

class BookController {
	def list = {
		def bookClass = grailsApplication.classLoader.loadClass("Book")
		[book:bookClass.newInstance()]
	}
}

Description

The GrailsApplication class provides information about the conventions within Grails and access to api:org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsApplication, api:org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsApplication and the api:org.codehaus.groovy.grails.commons.GrailsApplication