(Quick Reference)
                codecs
Purpose
Provides the facility to register encoders and decoders of textual data as methods on any object
Examples
class HTMLCodec {
    static encode = { theTarget ->
        HtmlUtils.htmlEscape(theTarget.toString())
    }
    static decode = { theTarget ->
        HtmlUtils.htmlUnescape(theTarget.toString())
    }
}
assert "<p>Hello World!</p>" == "<p>Hello World!</p>".encodeAsHTML()
assert "<p>Hello World!</p>" == "<p>Hello World!</p>".decodeHTML()Description
This plugin searches for classes with names that end in the convention 
Codec and dynamically registers 
encodeAsCodec and 
decodeCodec methods on 
java.lang.Object so that any data can be encoded and decoded. For more information refer to the section of 
Encoding and Decoding Objects in the user guide.
Provided Codecs:
- HTMLCodec- encodes/decodes HTML mark-up
- URLCodec- encodes/decodes URLs
- JavascriptCodec- encodes (escapes) JavaScript
- Base64Codec- encodes/decodes Base64 data
- HexCodec- encodes a byte array or list of integers into a hex string, and decodes hex strings into byte array
- MD5Codec- encodes a byte array or list of integers, or the characters of a string (using default system encoding) into an MD5 digest as a hex string
- MD5BytesCodec- encodes a byte array or list of integers, or the characters of a string (using default system encoding) into an MD5 digest as a byte array
- SHA1Codec- encodes a byte array or list of integers, or the characters of a string (using default system encoding) into an SHA1 digest as a hex string
- SHA1BytesCodec- encodes a byte array or list of integers, or the characters of a string (using default system encoding) into an SHA1 digest as a byte array
- SHA256Codec- encodes a byte array or list of integers, or the characters of a string (using default system encoding) into an SHA256 digest as a hex string
- SHA256BytesCodec- encodes byte array or list of integers, or the characters of a string (using default system encoding) into an SHA256 digest as a byte array