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<h2 id="script">Script</h2>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Execute a script in a <a href="https://jakarta.apache.org/bsf" target="_top">Apache BSF</a>
or <a href="https://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/maintenance/jsr223/223ChangeLog.html"
target="_top">JSR 223</a> supported language.
</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: This task depends on external libraries not included in the Apache Ant
distribution.  See <a href="../install.html#librarydependencies">Library Dependencies</a> for more
information.</p>
<p>The task may use the BSF scripting manager or the JSR 223 manager that is included in the JDK.
This is controlled by the <var>manager</var> attribute. The JSR 223 scripting manager is
indicated by <q>javax</q>.</p>
<p>All items (tasks, targets, etc) of the running project are accessible from the script, using
either their <var>name</var> or <var>id</var> attributes (as long as their names are considered
valid Java identifiers, that is).  This is controlled by the <var>setbeans</var> attribute of the
task.  The name <code class="code">project</code> is a pre-defined reference to the Project, which
can be used instead of the project name. The name <code class="code">self</code> is a pre-defined
reference to the actual <code>&lt;script&gt;</code>-Task instance.<br/>From these objects you have
access to the Ant Java API, see the <a href="../api/index.html">JavaDoc</a> (especially
for <a href="../api/org/apache/tools/ant/Project.html">Project</a>
and <a href="../api/org/apache/tools/ant/taskdefs/optional/Script.html">Script</a>) for more
information.</p>
<p>If you are using JavaScript under BSF, a good resource
is <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/rhino/doc.html"
target="_top">https://www.mozilla.org/rhino/doc.html</a> as we are using their JavaScript
interpreter.</p>
<p>Scripts can do almost anything a task written in Java could do.</p>
<p>Rhino provides a special construct&mdash;the <code>JavaAdapter</code>. With that you can create
an object which implements several interfaces, extends classes and for which you can overwrite
methods. Because this is an undocumented feature (yet), here is the link to an
explanation: <a href="https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/netscape.public.mozilla.jseng/YlRQE0OvM8c/F8Mvq-XkpxcJ"
target="_top">Google Groups: "Rhino, enum.js, JavaAdapter?"</a>  by Norris Boyd in the
newsgroup <em>netscape.public.mozilla.jseng</em>.</p>

<p>If you are creating Targets programmatically, make sure you set the Location to a useful value.
In particular all targets should have different location values.</p>

<h3>Parameters</h3>
<table class="attr">
  <tr>
    <th scope="col">Attribute</th>
    <th scope="col">Description</th>
    <th scope="col">Required</th>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>language</td>
    <td>The programming language the script is written in.  Must be a supported Apache BSF or JSR
      223 language</td>
    <td>Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>manager</td>
    <td>
      <em>Since Ant 1.7</em>.  The script engine manager to use. This can have one of three
      values: <q>auto</q>, <q>bsf</q> or <q>javax</q>.
      <ul>
        <li><q>bsf</q> use the BSF scripting manager to run the language.</li>
        <li><q>javax</q> use the <code>javax.scripting</code> manager to run the language.</li>
        <li><q>auto</q> use the BSF engine if it exists, otherwise use
          the <code>javax.scripting</code> manager.</li>
      </ul>
    </td>
    <td>No; default is <q>auto</q></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>src</td>
    <td>The location of the script as a file, if not inline</td>
    <td>No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>encoding</td>
    <td>The encoding of the script as a file. <em>Since Ant 1.10.2</em>.</td>
    <td>No; defaults to default JVM character encoding</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>setbeans</td>
    <td>This attribute controls whether to set variables for all properties, references and targets
      in the running script.  If this attribute is <q>false</q>, only the the <code>project</code>
      and <code>self</code> variables are set.  If this attribute is <q>true</q> all the variables
      are set. <em>Since Ant 1.7</em></td>
    <td>No; defaults to <q>true</q></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>classpath</td>
    <td>The classpath to pass into the script. <em>Since Ant 1.7</em></td>
    <td>No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>classpathref</td>
    <td>The classpath to use, given as a <a href="../using.html#references">reference</a> to a path
    defined elsewhere.
    <em>Since Ant 1.7</em></td>
    <td>No</td>
  </tr>
</table>
<h3>Parameters specified as nested elements</h3>
<h4>classpath</h4>
<p><em>Since Ant 1.7</em></p>
<p><code>Script</code>'s <var>classpath</var> attribute is a <a href="../using.html#path">path-like
structure</a> and can also be set via a nested <code>&lt;classpath&gt;</code> element.
</p>
<p>If a classpath is set, it will be used as the current thread context classloader, and as the
classloader given to the BSF manager.  This means that it can be used to specify the classpath
containing the language implementation for BSF or for JSR 223 managers.  This can be useful if one
wants to keep <samp>${user.home}/.ant/lib</samp> free of lots of scripting language specific jar
files.</p>
<p><strong>Note</strong>: (<em>since Ant 1.7.1</em>) This classpath <em>can</em> be used to specify
the location of the BSF jar file and/or languages that have engines in the BSF jar file. This
includes the <q>javascript</q>, <q>jython</q>, <q>netrexx</q> and <q>jacl</q> languages.</p>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<p>The following snippet shows use of five different languages:</p>
<pre>
    &lt;property name="message" value="Hello world"/&gt;

    &lt;script language="groovy"&gt;
      println("message is " + message)
    &lt;/script&gt;

    &lt;script language="beanshell"&gt;
      System.out.println("message is " + message);
    &lt;/script&gt;

    &lt;script language="judoscript"&gt;
        println 'message is ', message
    &lt;/script&gt;

    &lt;script language="ruby"&gt;
        print 'message is ', $message, "\n"
    &lt;/script&gt;

    &lt;script language="jython"&gt;
print "message is %s" % message
    &lt;/script&gt;</pre>
<p>Note that for the <q>jython</q> example, the script contents <strong>must</strong> start on the
first column.</p>
<p>Note also that for the <q>ruby</q> example, the names of the set variables are prefixed by
a <q>$</q>.</p>
<p>The following script shows a little more complicated JRuby example:</p>
<pre>
&lt;script language="ruby"&gt;
  xmlfiles = Dir.new(".").entries.delete_if { |i| ! (i =~ /\.xml$/) }
  xmlfiles.sort.each { |i| $self.log(i) }
&lt;/script&gt;</pre>
<p>The same example in Groovy is:</p>
<pre>
&lt;script language="groovy"&gt;
  xmlfiles = new java.io.File(".").listFiles().findAll{ it =~ "\.xml$"}
  xmlfiles.sort().each { self.log(it.toString()) }
&lt;/script&gt;</pre>
<p>The following example shows the use of classpath to specify the location of the beanshell jar
file.</p>
<pre>
&lt;script language="beanshell" setbeans="true"&gt;
  &lt;classpath&gt;
    &lt;fileset dir="${user.home}/lang/beanshell" includes="*.jar"/&gt;
  &lt;/classpath&gt;
  System.out.println("Hello world");
&lt;/script&gt;</pre>
<p>The following script uses JavaScript to create a number of <code>echo</code> tasks and execute
them.</p>
<pre>
&lt;project name=&quot;squares&quot; default=&quot;main&quot; basedir=&quot;.&quot;&gt;
  &lt;target name=&quot;main&quot;&gt;
    &lt;script language=&quot;javascript&quot;&gt; &lt;![CDATA[
      for (i = 1; i &lt;= 10; i++) {
        echo = squares.createTask(&quot;echo&quot;);
        echo.setMessage(i*i);
        echo.perform();
      }
    ]]&gt; &lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/target&gt;
&lt;/project&gt;</pre>
<p>generates</p>
<pre>
main:
1
4
9
16
25
36
49
64
81
100

BUILD SUCCESSFUL</pre>

<p>Now a more complex example using the Java API and the Ant API. The goal is to list the file sizes
of all files a <code>&lt;fileset/&gt;</code> caught.</p>
<pre>
&lt;?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?&gt;
&lt;project name="<span style="color:blue">MyProject</span>" basedir="." default="main"&gt;

  &lt;property name="fs.dir" value="src"/&gt;
  &lt;property name="fs.includes" value="**/*.txt"/&gt;
  &lt;property name="fs.excludes" value="**/*.tmp"/&gt;

  &lt;target name="main"&gt;
    &lt;script language="javascript"&gt; &lt;![CDATA[
      // import statements
      <span style="color:blue">// importPackage(java.io)</span>;
      <span style="color:blue">importClass(java.io.File)</span>;
      // Nashorn syntax
      // <span style="color:blue">load("nashorn:mozilla_compat.js");</span>
      // or
      // <span style="color:blue">var File = Java.type('java.io.File');</span>


      // Access to Ant-Properties by their names
      dir      = <span style="color:blue">project</span>.getProperty("fs.dir");
      includes = <span style="color:blue">MyProject</span>.getProperty("fs.includes");
      excludes = <span style="color:blue">self.getProject()</span>.<span style="color:blue">getProperty("fs.excludes")</span>;

      // Create a &lt;fileset dir="" includes=""/&gt;
      fs = project.<span style="color:blue">createDataType("fileset")</span>;
      fs.setDir(new File(dir));
      <span style="color:blue">fs.setIncludes(includes)</span>;
      fs.setExcludes(excludes);

      // Get the files (array) of that fileset
      ds = fs.getDirectoryScanner(project);
      srcFiles = ds.getIncludedFiles();

      // iterate over that array
      for (i = 0; i &lt; srcFiles.length; i++) {

        // get the values via Java API
        var basedir  = fs.getDir(project);
        var filename = srcFiles[i];
        var file = <span style="color:blue">new File(basedir, filename)</span>;
        var size = file.length();

        // create and use a Task via Ant API
        echo = MyProject.<span style="color:blue">createTask("echo")</span>;
        echo.setMessage(filename + ": " + size + " byte");
        echo.<span style="color:blue">perform()</span>;
      }
    ]]&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;/target&gt;
&lt;/project&gt;</pre>
<p>We want to use the Java API. Because we don't want always typing the package signature we do an
import. Rhino knows two different methods for import statements: one for packages and one for a
single class. By default only the <code>java</code> packages are available,
so <code class="code">java.lang.System</code> can be directly imported
with <code>importClass</code>/<code>importPackage</code>. For other packages you have to prefix the
full classified name with <strong>Packages</strong>. For example
Ant's <code class="code">FileUtils</code> class can be imported
with <code class="code">importClass(<strong>Packages</strong>.org.apache.tools.ant.util.FileUtils)</code></p>
<p>In Java 8 up until Java 14, you may use the built-in Nashorn JavaScript engine rather than Rhino (which is
available in Java 7 runtime). Then, use <code>Java.type</code> as import statement for any Java
class
or <a href="https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/technotes/guides/scripting/prog_guide/javascript.html#A1147207">the
compatibility script</a>: <code>load("nashorn:mozilla_compat.js");</code>.</p>

<p>Starting with Java 15 Nashorn has been removed again and you need
  to provide an external JavaScript engine. Your best option probably
  is <a href="https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs">GraalVM
  JavaScript</a> which requires you to add a lot of extra jars. For
  GraalVM JavaScript 20.1 you'll
  need <code>org.graalvm.js:js</code>, <code>org.graalvm.js:js-engine</code>
  which in turn
  require <code>org.graalvm.regex:regex</code>, <code>org.graalvm.truffle:truffle-api</code>, <code>org.graalvm.sdk:graal-sdk</code>,
  and <code>com.ibm.icu:icu4j</code>. GraalVM JavaScript is not a
  drop-in replacement for Nashorn, see
  Graal's <a href="https://github.com/graalvm/graaljs/blob/master/docs/user/NashornMigrationGuide.md">Nashorn
  Migration Guide</a> for more details.</p>

<p>When using GraalVM JavaScript Ant will enable the
  feature <code>polyglot.js.allowAllAccess</code> in order to allow
  scripts to use Ant objects. By default it will also enable Nashorn
  compatibility mode, but you can disable this by setting the magic
  Ant property <code>ant.disable.graal.nashorn.compat</code>
  to <code>true</code>.</p>

<p>The <code>&lt;script&gt;</code> task populates the Project instance under the
name <code class="code">project</code>, so we can use that reference. Another way is to use its
given name or getting its reference from the task itself. The Project provides methods for accessing
and setting properties, creating DataTypes and Tasks and much more.<br/>After creating a FileSet
object we initialize that by calling its set-methods. Then we can use that object like a normal Ant
task (<code>&lt;copy&gt;</code> for example).<br/>For getting the size of a file we instantiate
a <code class="code">java.io.File</code>. So we are using normal Java API here.<br/>Finally we use
the <code>&lt;echo&gt;</code> task for producing the output. The task is not executed by
its <code class="code">execute()</code> method, because the <code class="code">perform()</code>
method (implemented in Task itself) does the appropriate logging before and after
invoking <code class="code">execute()</code>.</p>
<p>Here is an example of using beanshell to create an Ant task. This task will add filesets and
paths to a referenced path. If the path does not exist, it will be created.</p>
<pre>
&lt;!--
       Define addtopath task
 --&gt;
&lt;script language="beanshell"&gt;
    import org.apache.tools.ant.Task;
    import org.apache.tools.ant.types.Path;
    import org.apache.tools.ant.types.FileSet;
    public class AddToPath extends Task {
        private Path path;
        public void setRefId(String id) {
            path = getProject().getReference(id);
            if (path == null) {
                path = new Path(getProject());
                getProject().addReference(id, path);
            }
        }
        public void add(Path c) {
            path.add(c);
        }
        public void add(FileSet c) {
            path.add(c);
        }
        public void execute() {
            // Do nothing
        }
    }
    project.addTaskDefinition("addtopath", AddToPath.class);
&lt;/script&gt;</pre>
<p>An example of using this task to create a path from a list of directories (using
Ant-Contrib's <a href="http://ant-contrib.sourceforge.net/tasks/tasks/for.html"
target="_top">&lt;for&gt;</a> task) follows:</p>
<pre>
&lt;path id="main.path"&gt;
  &lt;fileset dir="build/classes"/&gt;
&lt;/path&gt;
&lt;ac:for param="ref" list="commons,fw,lps"
        xmlns:ac="antlib:net.sf.antcontrib"&gt;
  &lt;sequential&gt;
    &lt;addtopath refid="main.path"&gt;
      &lt;fileset dir="${dist.dir}/@{ref}/main"
               includes="**/*.jar"/&gt;
    &lt;/addtopath&gt;
  &lt;/sequential&gt;
&lt;/ac:for&gt;</pre>

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