Grails No thread-bound request found - http

Question

I am using a Grails service closure to perform a async HTTP request to another web application. Using Grails 1.3.9, I am very limited here. The code runs inside a thread. It is called from a scheduled job and from several function calls. The error I get is below:
ERROR:
java.lang.IllegalStateException: No thread-bound request found: Are you referring to request attributes outside of an actual web request, or processing a request outside of the originally receiving thread? If you are actually operating within a web request and still receive this message, your code is probably running outside of DispatcherServlet/DispatcherPortlet: In this case, use RequestContextListener or RequestContextFilter to expose the current request.
CODE:
Thread.start {
def http = new HTTPBuilder(grailsApplication?.config?.smsConfig?.smsServiceAddress);
try {
http.request(POST) {
body = bodyRequest;
requestContentType = ContentType.JSON
response.success = { resp ->
println "SUCCESS! ${resp.status}"
def user = RequestContextHolder.currentRequestAttributes().getSession().user
if (user != null) {
if (termin) {
termin.withTransaction {
try {
// do desired action
} catch (e) {
println(e);
}
}
}
}
}
response.failure = { resp ->
println "FAILURE request failed with status ${resp.status}, response body was [${resp.entity.content.text}]"
System.out << resp
}
}
}
//here error is caught
catch (e) {
log.error "Error: " + e;
}
}
I have tried adding this options to web.xml
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener</listener-class>
and also this to WebXmlConfig.groovy
listener.add = true
listener.classNames = ["org.springframework.web.context.request.RequestContextListener"]
but both did not help

Answer 1

This is something that isn't well documented or can you send you spirals:
Try this:
/*
* Fix for No thread-bound request found: Are you referring to request attributes
*/
def webRequest = RequestContextHolder.getRequestAttributes()
if(!webRequest) {
def servletContext = ServletContextHolder.getServletContext()
def applicationContext = WebApplicationContextUtils.getRequiredWebApplicationContext(servletContext)
webRequest = grails.util.GrailsWebMockUtil.bindMockWebRequest(applicationContext)
}
You will need spring test in your build.gradle
compile 'org.springframework:spring-test:2.5'
There is a grails 2 branch so follow the same class in the other branch if it is grails 2