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Installation

in command prompt, under your project directory
```
grails install-plugin console
```
access the console at ${contextPath}/console

Usage

Type any Groovy command in the console text area, then press "Execute"
The following implicit variables are available:

application - grailsApplication instance, e.g.
```
println application.getFlatConfig()
```

context - Spring ApplicationContext, e.g.

import groovy.sql.Sql

def dataSource = context.getBean('dataSource')
def sql = Sql.newInstance(dataSource)
    sql.eachRow("select * from information_schema.system_tables", {
    println "${it.TABLE_NAME}"
    })

session - the current HTTP session

session.getAttributeNames().each{ attr ->
  println attr.padRight(40) + session.getAttribute(attr)
}

request - the current HTTP request, e.g.

def params = ['requestURI', 'requestURL', 'forwardURI']
    params.each{
        println it + "t" + request."$it"
    }

shell - the Groovy Shell instance

println shell.'application'
println application
println shell.'application' == application

defining variables

The console instance is maintained in session scope.
similar to normal Groovy Shell, you don't need to use "def" to declare a variable, e.g. the following won't work
```
def foo = "bar"
(execute)
println foo
(execute)
```

but you can use

foo = "bar"
(execute)
println foo
(execute)

Result Area

The result area display the output of "println" and the return value of the last line of execute (in blue).

Compatiability

This plugin is tested with Grails 1.1 RC1

Development

If you got any good idea, please feel free to discuss us in the grails-user mail list and contribute.
Access the trunk at https://svn.codehaus.org/grails-plugins/grails-console/trunk/

Author Siegfried Puchbauer, Mingfai Ma