Expected Behavior

In Grails < 7, when the grails-gsp plugin is enabled, the grails-codec package would be included. This package had many classes such as https://github.com/apache/grails-core/blob/6.0.x/grails-codecs/src/main/groovy/org/grails/plugins/codecs/Base64CodecExtensionMethods.groovy which would be added as default string methods via groovy.

uses of

String x="abc"
x.encodeAsBase64()

would succeed

Actual Behaviour

These classes have been moved to grails-codecs-core which is not included when using grails-gsp.

As a result, the above calls fail

groovy.lang.MissingMethodException: No signature of method: java.lang.String.encodeAsBase64() is applicable for argument types: () values: [] Possible solutions: decodeBase64(), encodeAsJson(), encodeAsHTML4(), encodeAsJs(), encodeAsRaw() at org.codehaus.groovy.runtime.ScriptBytecodeAdapter.unwrap(ScriptBytecodeAdapter.java:72) at org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v8.IndyGuardsFiltersAndSignatures.unwrap(IndyGuardsFiltersAndSignatures.java:163) at org.codehaus.groovy.vmplugin.v8.IndyInterface.fromCache(IndyInterface.java:321)

Steps To Reproduce

Codecs such as Base64CodecExtensionMethods.groovy were moved out of grails-codecs into a new package called grails-codecs-core. How are these default groovy extensions loaded? Previously these would be loaded through the gsp plugin -> grails-codecs dependency. In latest Grails 7, these appear not to be loaded any more so calls to x.encodeAsBase64 / x.encodeAsMD5() no longer work.
Is this a bug / or a breaking change that is not documented? grails-codecs-core is not published in maven either?

Environment Information

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Example Application

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Version

7.0.0-M4