grails 2.0 - correct use of serverURL for production?

Question

Grails 2.0 changed with the way it uses grails.serverURL for development and test environments (as described in the manual). However, I\'ve had several problems with serverURL

Answer 1

Good question! I was just looking for the correct way to get the actual serverURL without explicitly needing to configure it in Config.groovy (in a Grails 2.1 application).

Since Grails 2.0, there is a super-useful class called LinkGenerator that you can use virtually anywhere, for example in a Service:

import org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.mapping.LinkGenerator

Class MyService {
    LinkGenerator grailsLinkGenerator

    String serverUrl() {
        // Generate: http://localhost:8080/link-generator
        grailsLinkGenerator.serverBaseURL
    }
}

Thanks to Mr. Haki for blogging about this!