How to construct an HTTP post with Groovy HTTPBuilder RESTClient

Question

The post example from the docs does not function with http-builder 1.7.1.

def msg = "I'm using HTTPBuilder's RESTClient on ${new Date()}"

def resp = twitter.post(
        path : 'update.json',
        body : [ status:msg, source:'httpbuilder' ],
        requestContentType : URLENC )

assert resp.status == 200
assert resp.headers.Status
assert resp.data.text == msg

def postID = resp.data.id

The exception is

wslite.rest.RESTClientException: No such property: body for class: wslite.http.HTTPRequest

Trolling the API, it is not obvious how you are supposed to construct the post correctly. Any ideas?

Answer 1

Based on the exception it looks like you are using the groovy-wslite library and not HTTPBuilder. If that is the case, the following should work:

def resp = twitter.post(path: 'update.json') {
    urlenc status: msg, source:'httpbuilder'
}