John Wagenleitner

My opinion is that something like this would be best provided as an external library and not included (from the start anyway) as part of Groovy itself or one of...

Just a minor comment, for checking whether the annotation exists I think `isAnnotationPresent(IgnoreDefaultEqualsAndToString.class)` reads a little better than `getAnnotation(IgnoreDefaultEqualsAndToString.class) != null`.

It looks like the problem is with the response and not the request. Try printing out the result of `responseI.contentAsString` and see what format the response is in.

Wslite doesn't have any built-in support for MOTM. It would be up to the developer to craft/interrupt the MOTM messages.