The key is to make custom URL handling -- you have to implement a URLStreamHandler and a URLConnection.
If you google around, there's some good documentation on how to implement the stream handler and connection classes -- but for what you're doing, you really only need dummy implementations.
Here's some source code to bootstrap you -- it demonstrates how to connect the pieces up. If you provide some implementation of lookupScriptCodeWithJDBCorWhatever you'll be good to go.
import groovy.lang.GroovyResourceLoader;
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLConnection;
import java.net.URLStreamHandler;
public class CustomGroovyResourceLoader implements GroovyResourceLoader {
private final GroovyResourceLoader parentLoader;
public CustomGroovyResourceLoader(GroovyResourceLoader parentLoader) {
this.parentLoader = parentLoader;
}
@Override
public URL loadGroovySource(String filename) throws MalformedURLException {
URL resourceURL = null;
if (parentLoader != null) {
resourceURL = parentLoader.loadGroovySource(filename);
}
if (resourceURL == null) {
resourceURL = createURL(filename);
}
return resourceURL;
}
public URL createURL(String resourceName) throws MalformedURLException {
String scriptSourceCode = lookupScriptCodeWithJDBCorWhatever(resourceName);
return new URL(null, "groovy:///" + resourceName,
new GroovyResourceStreamHandler(scriptSourceCode));
}
private String lookupScriptCodeWithJDBCorWhatever(String resourceName) {
//TODO: blah blah blah
return null;
}
class GroovyResourceConnection extends URLConnection {
private final String urlData;
protected GroovyResourceConnection(URL url, String logic) {
super(url);
this.urlData = logic;
}
@Override
public void connect() throws IOException {}
@Override
public InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException {
return new ByteArrayInputStream(urlData.getBytes());
}
}
class GroovyResourceStreamHandler extends URLStreamHandler {
private final String scriptSource;
public GroovyResourceStreamHandler(String scriptSource) {
this.scriptSource = scriptSource;
}
@Override
protected URLConnection openConnection(URL u) throws IOException {
GroovyResourceConnection connection = new GroovyResourceConnection(u, scriptSource);
return connection;
}
}
}
You then install this thing with some code that looks like this:
GroovyClassLoader groovyClassLoader = new GroovyClassLoader();
groovyClassLoader.setResourceLoader( new CustomGroovyResourceLoader( groovyClassLoader.getResourceLoader() ) );