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On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 10:43 AM, Vincent Massol <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi devs, > > I'd like to propose adding the Ivy JAR to our Platform/XE distributions. > > The reason is simple: it makes it possible to use the Groovy @Grab directive > which makes it real easy to extend XWiki using Groovy script. > Several advantages: > - not having to manually hunt for transitive dependencies > - not needing to stop/restart XWiki (since this is what you need to do if > your groovy script needs to use some third party jars). > > Here's a good usage example: > > {{cache}} > {{groovy}} > @Grab(group='org.codehaus.groovy.modules.http-builder', > module='http-builder', version='0.5.1') > import groovyx.net.http.RESTClient > > github = new RESTClient( 'http://github.com/api/v2/json/' ) > > println "|=Project|=Description|=Use Wiki?|=Use Issues?" > def response = github.get( path : 'repos/show/xwiki' ) > response.data.repositories.each() { repo -> > println > "|[[${repo.name}>>http://github.com/xwiki/${repo.name}]]|${repo.description}|${repo.has_wiki}|${repo.has_issues}" > } > {{/groovy}} > {{/cache}} > > If you try to do this without the grab directive you'll find yourself hunting > down more than 30 jars which you'll need to put in your WEB-INF/lib > directory, whereas here it's a single line directive. It's really powerful. > > Here's my +1 to make it easy for users to use Groovy scripts. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs > _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
