GroovyRestlet User Guide

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• ofBean: to tell GroovyRestlet that to create a component from Spring context by a bean name;
• ofClass: to tell GroovyRestlet that to create a component using Spring's AutowireCapableBeanFactory

  Info
  GroovyRestlet will only use AutowireCapableBeanFactory to create instance indicated by ofClass when Spring context is provided. Otherwise it will create an instance of that class using Java reflection

Technical detail

GroovyRestlet

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builder.restlet(ofClass:"org.restle.Transform", consArgs:[transformer.MODE_REQUEST, sheet] as Object[])

Another important attribute of restlet is handle, which refers to a Groovy closure. Once this attribute provided, this closure will override the default handle method of the Restlet.

builder.restlet(handle:{request, response, self->
   return new StringRepresentation("Hello GroovyRestlet")
})

Sometimes it is necessary to access the instance of Restlet itself. You can do that by appending an additional argument in the closure argument list. GroovyRestlet will automatically pass the calling instance to the closure as shown in above example.

server

client

component

application

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