Wednesday, 15 April 2015

Groovy: Baby Steps

Posting a form in groovy, baby steps. Derived from http://coderberry.me/blog/2012/05/07/stupid-simple-post-slash-get-with-groovy-httpbuilder/

@Grab(group='org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder', module='http-builder', version='0.7' )
@Grab(group='org.codehaus.groovyfx', module='groovyfx', version='0.3.1')
import groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder
import groovyx.net.http.ContentType
import groovyx.net.http.Method
import groovyx.net.http.RESTClient

public class Post {

  public static void main(String[] args) {

    def baseUrl = "http://www.paneris.org/pe2/org.paneris.user.controller.LoginUser"

    def ret = null
    def http = new HTTPBuilder(baseUrl)

    http.request(Method.POST, ContentType.TEXT) {
      //uri.path = path
      uri.query = [db:"paneris", 
                  loginid:"timp", 
                  password:"password"]
      headers.'User-Agent' = 'Mozilla/5.0 Ubuntu/8.10 Firefox/3.0.4'

      response.success = { resp, reader ->
          println "response status: ${resp.statusLine}"
          println 'Headers: -----------'
          resp.headers.each { h ->
            println " ${h.name} : ${h.value}"
          }

          ret = reader.getText()

          println '--------------------'
          println ret
          println '--------------------'
      }
    }
  }
}