Groovy built-in REST/HTTP client?

Question

I heard that Groovy has a built-in REST/HTTP client. The only library I can find is HttpBuilder, is this it?

Basically I'm looking for a way to do HTTP GETs from inside Groovy code without having to import any libraries (if at all possible). But since this module doesn't appear to be a part of core Groovy I'm not sure if I have the right lib here.

Answer 1

import groovyx.net.http.HTTPBuilder;

public class HttpclassgetrRoles {
     static void main(String[] args){
         def baseUrl = new URL('http://test.city.com/api/Cirtxyz/GetUser')

         HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection) baseUrl.openConnection();
         connection.addRequestProperty("Accept", "application/json")
         connection.with {
           doOutput = true
           requestMethod = 'GET'
           println content.text
         }

     }
}