Re: Running groovy programs

This approach may work well for simple file include but if I have packages
(and import statements, which is inevitable if program grows) it does not
compile.

Andriy

On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 4:47 AM Jochen Theodorou <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 08.03.22 19:08, Andriy Rysin wrote:
> > So it looks like groovy picks up groovy scripts from the current
> > directory by default.
> > So the users can't just do "/path/to/scripts/TagText.groovy <myfile>"
> > any more.
> > They would have to do:
> > cd /path/to/scripts/
> > ./TagText.groovy <myfile>
> >
> > or they would have to invoke groovy explicitly:
> > groovy -cp /path/to/scripts /path/to/scripts/TagText.groovy <myfile>
>
> what you could also do is to make something like a small loader. Use
>
> https://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/gapi/groovy/transform/SourceURI.html
> to get the uri of the file, then add the to the classloader to then
> finally load the class that is really doing the work and has
> dependencies on other scripts. This loader should not have any direct
> source dependencies for this to work.
>
> bye Jochen
>
>