Adding a method from an external groovy script with GroovyShell()

Question

I have a groovy script (source.groovy) that needs to call a method from another groovy script (external.groovy). The problem is external.groovy imports a library that does not exists so I get an error. Here is an example:

Source.groovy:

 new GroovyShell().parse( new File( 'external.groovy' ) ).with {
    method()
  }

Here is external.groovy:

import com.foo.doesnotexsist
def method() {println "test"}

When I run Source.groovy I get an error because com.foo.doesnotexsist does not exist. I don't care that it does not exists because it does not effect the method() function. Is there a way I can call the method() function?

What is the version of Groovy? – dmahapatro Jun 05 '14 at 19:06 — dmahapatro, Jun 05 '14 at 19:06
You could erase that line from the file? – Will Jun 05 '14 at 19:48 — Will, Jun 05 '14 at 19:48

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 07 '14 at 08:45

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Maybe it is not the way we want to achieve that, but there is simple solution to remove unwanted imports:

def text = new File( 'external.groovy' ).findAll{!(it =~ /^\s*import/)}.join('\n')
new GroovyShell().parse( text ).with{method()}

answered Jun 07 '14 at 08:45

hexin

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