Groovy Grails POST/GET Requests

Just a snippet of how to do GET/POST request in Groovy Grails.

try{
      HttpBuilder http = new HTTPBuilder('your URL here')
      def postBody = [name: 'bob', title: 'construction worker']

      http.post(body: postBody,
                        requestContentType: ContentType.JSON) { resp, json ->

                    //This is to assume everything is successful within this                         //closure
                    println "response status " + resp.statusLine
                    println "json response " + json
                    
                }

}catch(HttpResponseException ex){
        //handle your errors here
}