(Quick Reference)

response

Purpose

The {grailsdocs}ref/Servlet%20API/response.html[response] object is an instance of the Servlet API’s {javaee}javax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse.html[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 {javaee}javax/servlet/http/HttpServletResponse.html[HttpServletResponse] class in the Servlet API for more information.

Note The additional methods added to the {grailsdocs}ref/Servlet%20API/response.html[response] object are documented in the Grails Servlet API reference guide