(Quick Reference)
servletContext
Purpose
The
servletContext object is an instance of the Servlet API's
ServletContext class.
Examples
class BookController {
def doSomething() {
def input
try {
input = servletContext.getResourceAsStream("/WEB-INF/myscript.groovy")
def result = new GroovyShell().evaluate(input.text)
render result
}
finally {
input.close()
}
}
}Description
The Servlet API's
ServletContext is useful for, amongst other things, storing global application attributes, reading local server resources and establishing information about the servlet container.
Grails adds additional methods to the standard Servlet API's servletContext object. See link for details.
