Dynamic Loading of Other Groovy Functions

[Fred Eisele]

I have a driver class (currently written in python) that ·       reads a csv file of command records which describe functions, the driver ·       loads groovy functions (as text strings) ·       the driver edits (textually) the groovy functions to add parameters ·       passes that groovy command to a database server (gremlin-server) which ·       processes the request and ·       returns the result. I would like to make a few changes to this process. replace python driver with a groovy script (python gremlin driver is missing some features) dynamically load the groovy functions (not as text strings) communicate with the database server in the binary format (not as text)   To do this I need to know… Is possible to dynamically load groovy scripts? e.g. if I have a groovy script ‘foo.groovy’ and a variable `x = ‘foo’` can I use the variable `x` to invoke a function in `foo.groovy`? I know I can run `foo.groovy`.execute() as a separate process but I need to capture the result, plus I do not want to incur the added computational cost.