My TinyUrl plugin released!
Posted
March 24, 2009 
Comments(2)
Comments(2)
Hi,
This is the first plugin I release on my own. This is very very simple, and the main reason to do this, is actually to learn how to deal with your own grails plugins.
It’s called TinyUrl plugin and provides a to your application a service to integrate with TinyUrl URL shrinker website, It’s simple to user, and I recommend to everyone that sends URLs through twitter or other services. Imagine after you insert a post into your blog, you’ll twitter it:
Inject the service
def tinyurlService
and in your action:
def post = new Post(params)
//save your post
def newUrl = tinyurlService.tiny(post.link)
//set your twitter status
twitter.post("I've just posted about ${post.title} right here: ${newUrl}")
That’s it!, visit its page:Â http://www.grails.org/plugin/TinyUrl
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Thanks!
The TinyurlService is transactional. That is a realy bad idea….
Yeah. This shouldn’t even be a Grails Service. A regular Groovy Object declared under resources.groovy would fit.
Old code. Bad code.
Thanks anyway.