Can I inject a service into a filter in Grails?

Question

I have a service to get and set the user in the session. I would like to pass in some user information to each view if there is a logged in user and thought a filter would be th

Answer 1

It looks like there are some problems with services in filters. This bug might point you in the right direction: https://jira.grails.org/browse/GRAILS-5982

You can also try to get a reference to your service through the ApplicationContext. Here's an example: How do I get an instance of a Grails service programmatically?