Cannot access createLink() from a service

This sucks badly. Why on earth does createLink() need a request??

"workaround"

class RegService {

def g = new org.codehaus.groovy.grails.plugins.web.taglib.ApplicationTagLib()

def reg(def regInfo) =

}

I tried the workaround by B. Skerlecz and it gives us the Context root and everything to the right of the URL, unfortunately it does not supply the stuff on the left that is needed for a full URL if you need an absolute link (protocol, server name, and port number).

There is no scope / time to resolve these remaining lower priority issues for 1.2 so moving to 1.3

for 1.2 final only issues considered blocking will now be fixed

We had have the same issue for a while. We used a Job that uses a method of a Service to send HTML and plain text emails to our users, which contain generated links. The convenient way to use TagLibs in Service would be to create an instance of the requested one or by using the related beans. The main issue here is that you need a request bound to your context, if you want to use TagLib functionalities like createLink(). To handle this, we had used the following workaround within our Job (the locale part and logging is optional):

// set mock request
def ctx = ServletContextHolder.getServletContext().getAttribute(GrailsApplicationAttributes.APPLICATION_CONTEXT)
def webRequest = GrailsWebUtil.bindMockWebRequest(ctx)
if (log.isInfoEnabled()) {
    log.info "dummy request bound to job thread"
}

// set locale
def request = webRequest.getCurrentRequest()
request.addPreferredLocale(Locale.GERMANY)
if (log.isInfoEnabled()) {
    log.info "preferred locale for the request set to ${Locale.GERMANY}"
}

With this mock request bound, you could generate URLs without any problems.

you need to add 'org.springframework:spring-test:3.0.3.RELEASE' to your dependencies in buildconfig.groovy to make this work

Steve, can you clarify? I'm not seeing how including a dependency would alter the fundamental behavior of createLink() and createLinkTo() requiring a request object.

Matt,

The spring-test module is not included by default in a WAR deployment, which means that `GrailsWebUtil.bindMockWebRequest()` will fail in a deployment (but will work in development) unless you explicitly bring in this dependency.

Fixed as of the new LinkGenerator bean implemented by GRAILS-6685