Groovy built-in REST/HTTP client?

Question

I heard that Groovy has a built-in REST/HTTP client. The only library I can find is HttpBuilder, is this it?

Basically I'm looking for a way to do HTTP GETs from inside Groovy code without having to import any libraries (if at all possible). But since this module doesn't appear to be a part of core Groovy I'm not sure if I have the right lib here.

Answer 1

Native Groovy GET and POST

// GET def get = new URL("https://httpbin.org/get").openConnection(); def getRC = get.getResponseCode(); println(getRC); if (getRC.equals(200)) {     println(get.getInputStream().getText()); }  // POST def post = new URL("https://httpbin.org/post").openConnection(); def message = '{"message":"this is a message"}' post.setRequestMethod("POST") post.setDoOutput(true) post.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/json") post.getOutputStream().write(message.getBytes("UTF-8")); def postRC = post.getResponseCode(); println(postRC); if (postRC.equals(200)) {     println(post.getInputStream().getText()); }