(Quick Reference)

servletContext

Purpose

The {grailsdocs}ref/Servlet%20API/servletContext.html[servletContext] object is an instance of the Servlet API’s {javaee}javax/servlet/ServletContext.html[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 {javaee}javax/servlet/ServletContext.html[ServletContext] is useful for, amongst other things, storing global application attributes, reading local server resources and establishing information about the servlet container.

Note Grails adds additional methods to the standard Servlet API’s {grailsdocs}ref/Servlet%20API/servletContext.html[servletContext] object. See link for details.