Twitter4j Search with locale in Grails Application

gistfile1.groovy

package com.social

import twitter4j.*
import groovy.util.logging.Slf4j
import org.springframework.context.i18n.LocaleContextHolder as LCH


@Slf4j
class TwitterSearch {

  private final static MAX_TWEETS_PER_PAGE = 10
 
  private twitter 
  def query

  TwitterSearch(){

	twitter = new TwitterFactory().getInstance()
		
  }

 def tweetsInLocale(){

	def locale = LCH.getLocale() as String
		
	withCatchTwitterException {
			
		Query q = new Query("$query lang:$locale ")			
			
		q.setRpp(MAX_TWEETS_PER_PAGE)

		QueryResult result = twitter.search(q)

		return result.getTweets()

	}
 } 

 private withCatchTwitterException(closure){
		
	try{
		closure()
	
	}catch (TwitterException te) {
           
         	log.error "Failed to search tweets" , te 
            
        }
 }

}