groovy - Can I use grails tag outside of GSP?

Question

For example, i can put

 <g:createLink controller="user" action="show" /> 

inside a .gsp file and it will work nicely.

But also I'd like to use the same closure createLink inside a .groovy file which is not part of the grails views

Answer 1

You can use taglib methods from Grails controllers, for example:

def userShow = g.createLink(controller:"user", action:"show")

For builtin taglibs (or those in the g namespace) you can omit the namespace prefix in the method call.