Dynamic Loading of Other Groovy Functions

I have a driver class (currently written in python) that

· reads a csv file of command records which describe functions, the driver

· loads groovy functions (as text strings)

· the driver edits (textually) the groovy functions to add parameters

· passes that groovy command to a database server (gremlin-server) which

· processes the request and

· returns the result.

I would like to make a few changes to this process.

- replace python driver with a groovy script (python gremlin driver is missing some features)

- dynamically load the groovy functions (not as text strings)

- communicate with the database server in the binary format (not as text)

To do this I need to know…

Is possible to dynamically load groovy scripts?

e.g. if I have a groovy script ‘foo.groovy’ and a variable `x = ‘foo’` can I use the variable `x` to invoke a function in `foo.groovy`?
I know I can run `foo.groovy`.execute() as a separate process but I need to capture the result, plus I do not want to incur the added computational cost.