(Quick Reference)

grailsApplication

Purpose

An instance of the GrailsApplication class.

Examples

class BookController {
    def list() {
        def bookClass = grailsApplication.classLoader.loadClass("Book")
        [book: bookClass.newInstance()]
    }
}

Description

The GrailsApplication class provides information about the conventions within Grails and access to metadata, config and the ClassLoader