(Quick Reference)
response
Purpose
The
response object is an instance of the Servlet API's
HttpServletResponse class.
Examples
class BookController {
def downloadFile() {
byte[] bytes = // read bytes
response.outputStream << bytes
}
}Description
The Servlet API's
HttpServletResponse class can be used within Grails to perform all typical activities such as writing out binary data, writing directly to the response and sending error response codes to name but a few. Refer to the documentation on the
HttpServletResponse class in the Servlet API for more information.
The additional methods added to the response object are documented in the Grails Servlet API reference guide
