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sp00ky
Occasional Contributor
2 years ago

How to use @grab in groovy scripts?

Hi!   How can I extend groovy script functionality inside ReadyAPI? ReadyAPI version 3.47.0 with Groovy 3.0.14 installed. I already added latest Apache ivy dependency manager "ivy-2.5.1.jar" to "C...
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    sp00ky
    2 years ago

    nmrao Thank you. It is not solving the original problem loading dependencies dynamically via @Grab, but it works. It also proves that loading jar libs from /bin/ext/ folder is working. I guess the ivy lib needs an additional lib like ant to use @Grab command but I will not investigate further.

     

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    sp00ky
    Occasional Contributor
    2 years ago

    nmrao Thank you. It is not solving the original problem loading dependencies dynamically via @Grab, but it works. It also proves that loading jar libs from /bin/ext/ folder is working. I guess the ivy lib needs an additional lib like ant to use @Grab command but I will not investigate further.

     

    • TNeuschwanger's avatar
      TNeuschwanger
      Champion Level 1
      2 years ago

      Hello sp00ky ,

       

      @Grab is working for me to dynamically acquire libraries...

       

      If anyone needs reference on how to make it work...

       

      1) Obtain latest ivy version from apache.

      https://dlcdn.apache.org//ant/ivy/2.5.1/apache-ivy-2.5.1-bin.zip

      2) Extract the downloaded zip content to your desired location.

      3) Copy the extracted ivy-2.5.1.jar to your ReadyAPI installation 'lib' folder (not the 'bin\ext' folder).   i.e.:

      **   USE  ** C:\Program Files\SmartBear\ReadyAPI-3.47.0\lib\

      **   NOT  ** C:\Program Files\SmartBear\ReadyAPI-3.47.0\bin\ext\

      4) Restart ReadyAPI

      5) Test with following groovy script test step:

       

      // find the PDF links of the Java specifications
@Grab(group='org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup', module='tagsoup', version='1.2.1')
def getHtml() {
    def parser = new XmlParser(new org.ccil.cowan.tagsoup.Parser());
    parser.parse("https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/");
};
html.body.'**'.a.@href.grep(~/.*\.pdf/).each{ log.info it };

      6) The run of the script will produce content in Log Output window hopefully.  🙂

       

      Regards,

      Todd