This is a grails plugin that is a wrapper for bitly.com shorten API method. To short urls.
grails install-plugin bitly-shortener
In Config.groovy should be configured login, apiKey; and optionally the custom domain (may be your own domain if you have a premium account).
bitly.login = "danilat"
bitly.apiKey = "R_FooBar"
bitly.domain = "j.mp" //optional
There are 2 grails grails artifacts, a service bitlyService:
def shortened = bitlyService.shorten("http://www.danilat.com")
shortened.statusCode // 200 if all is ok, error code if not.
shortened.statusText // "OK" if all is ok, error message if not.
shortened.url // The shortened url if all is ok.
A taglib bitly:shorten:
${bitly.shorten(url:'http://www.danilat.com')}
<bitly:shorten url="http://www.danilat.com"/ >