I am using nashorn java ScriptEngine. I would like to evaluate a script which includes other scripts. I know I can use the load directive directly in the javascript itself, but I would prefer to import or load it directly from the java code instanciating the scriptEngine. Is there a way to do this ? Something like :

void evaluateScript(String scriptName, String dependency) {
    ScriptEngineManager factory = new ScriptEngineManager();
    ScriptEngine jsEngine = factory.getEngineByName("nashorn");
    jsEngine.load(depency); // does not exist.
    jsEngine.eval();
}

I see the "load" function does not exist. How could I achieve this?

Thanks

I am using nashorn java ScriptEngine. I would like to evaluate a script which includes other scripts. I know I can use the load directive directly in the javascript itself, but I would prefer to import or load it directly from the java code instanciating the scriptEngine. Is there a way to do this ? Something like :

void evaluateScript(String scriptName, String dependency) {
    ScriptEngineManager factory = new ScriptEngineManager();
    ScriptEngine jsEngine = factory.getEngineByName("nashorn");
    jsEngine.load(depency); // does not exist.
    jsEngine.eval();
}

I see the "load" function does not exist. How could I achieve this?

Thanks

• javascript
• java
• nashorn

2 Answers 2

Actually I found the answer myself: as mentioned in the ment, it is possible to call several eval with different scripts, same engine, and the engine will keep the evaluated scripts in its context. So here is my code:

public void executeScript(String scriptName, String[] dependencies) {
    try {
        FileReader script = new FileReader(scriptName);
        ScriptEngineManager factory = new ScriptEngineManager();
        ScriptEngine jsEngine = factory.getEngineByName("nashorn");

        if(dependencies != null) {
            for (String dependency : dependencies) {
                FileReader dependencyFile = new FileReader(dependency);
                jsEngine.eval(dependencyFile);
            }
        }

        jsEngine.eval(script);
    }
}

I can define functions in my dependencies and use them in the script of name scriptName.

javax.script.ScriptEngine has many "eval" methods - there are java.io.Reader accepting eval methods like this -> eval

You can pass a java.io.FileReader or a jdk.nashorn.api.scripting.URLReader to load script from a file or a URL.