Request Mocking In Grails For Back-end/Background Threads

import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest
import org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextHolder
import org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.context.ServletContextHolder
import org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationContextUtils

def getRequest() {
    def webRequest = RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes();
    if(!webRequest) {
        def servletContext  = ServletContextHolder.getServletContext();
        def applicationContext = WebApplicationContextUtils.getRequiredWebApplicationContext(servletContext);
        webRequest = grails.util.GrailsWebUtil.bindMockWebRequest(applicationContext);
    }
    return webRequest.request;
}

This code can broke while working on a WAR environment. The problem was that the 
MockWebRequest class was part of the “org.springframework:org.springframework.test:3.0.3.RELEASE” jar 
and had to be included in the BuildConfig.groovy as

dependencies {
    runtime 'org.springframework:org.springframework.test:3.0.3.RELEASE'
}

Ensure that the line:

mavenCentral()


is not commented in BuildConfig.groovy

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