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I want to know programmatically if a view or a layout exists in grails.

Since Grails 2.0, you can inject a GrailsConventionGroovyPageLocator:

package com.pkm import org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.pages.discovery.GrailsConventionGroovyPageLocator class HomeController { GrailsConventionGroovyPageLocator groovyPageLocator def index() { println(groovyPageLocator.findView("myView")) println(groovyPageLocator.findViewByPath("/home/myView")) println(groovyPageLocator.findTemplate("myTemplate")) println(groovyPageLocator.findTemplateByPath("/home/myTemplate")) render(text: "Done") } }

Will output like below, it no view found, null return.

URL [file:C:/Grails-project-path/grails-app/views/home/myView.gsp] URL [file:C:/Grails-project-path/grails-app/views/home/myView.gsp] URL [file:C:/Grails-project-path/grails-app/views/home/_myTemplate.gsp] URL [file:C:/Grails-project-path/grails-app/views/home/_myTemplate.gsp]