fetch code from gist using groovy

fetchCodeFromGist.groovy

//
// fetch code from gist using groovy
//
@Grab(group='commons-httpclient', module='commons-httpclient', version='3.1')

import org.apache.commons.httpclient.*
import org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.*


def encoding = 'UTF-8'

def gistId='1174714'
def filename='main.xml'
def gistUrl="http://gist.github.com/raw/${gistId}/${filename}"

def hc = new HttpClient()
def method = new GetMethod( gistUrl )
hc.executeMethod( method )

def reader = new InputStreamReader( method.getResponseBodyAsStream(), encoding )
def r = reader.text
reader.close()

method.releaseConnection()

println r