HTTPBuilder Binary Response Example

HTTBuilderBinary.groovy

def getBinaryStream(params) {
        def data
        def http = new HTTPBuilder("http://google.com/baseURI")
        http.request(Method.GET, ContentType.BINARY) {req ->
            //uri.path = "/a/relative/path/here"
            uri.port = "8080"
            uri.query = [userName: "user", password:"password"]
            headers.'User-Agent' = 'Mozilla/5.0'
            headers.'Accept' = 'application/octet-stream'
            response.'200' = {resp, binary ->
                log.info(resp.statusLine)
                data = binary.bytes //binary in this case is an instance of InputStream
            }

            response.failure = {resp ->
                log.error("Unexpected error: ${resp.statusLine.statusCode} : ${resp.statusLine.reasonPhrase}")
                log.error(uri.query)
                log.error(uri.toString())

                throw new Exception("There was an error retrieving the file")
            }
        }

        data
}