I'm trying to use Jython to integrate a small Python script into a Java program I have. I can't seem to get the python/jython engine using the javax.script
package.
I took the code from here with a small addition to produce this:
andrew@asimov:~$ echo $CLASSPATH
/opt/jython/jython.jar:.
andrew@asimov:~$ java Engines
The following 2 scripting engines were found
Engine name: jython
Version: 2.7.0
Language: python
Engine supports the following extensions:
py
Engine has the following short names:
python
jython
=========================
Engine name: Rhino
Version: Rhino 1.7 release 4 2013 08 27
Language: ECMAScript
Engine supports the following extensions:
js
Engine has the following short names:
js
rhino
JavaScript
javascript
ECMAScript
ecmascript
=========================
python engine is null: true
js engine is null: false
andrew@asimov:~$
The code I added is:
String[] engineNames = new String[] {
"python", "js"
};
for (String engineName : engineNames) {
ScriptEngine engine = manager.getEngineByName(engineName);
System.out.printf("%s engine is null: %s\n", engineName, (engine == null));
}
Why am I getting a null python engine?
I ran across this bug, which seemed to suggest that there is (or was) a jython-engine.jar out there, but I'm hanged if I could find it.
Per this question, using jython-standalone.jar
rather than jython.jar
returns a non-null engine:
andrew@asimov:~$ export CLASSPATH=jython-standalone-2.7.0.jar:.
andrew@asimov:~$ java Engines | tail -11
Engine name: jython
Version: 2.7.0
Language: python
Engine supports the following extensions:
py
Engine has the following short names:
python
jython
=========================
python engine is null: false
javascript engine is null: false
andrew@asimov:~$
(In my pom.xml, I used <artifactId>jython-standalone</artifactId>
)
Curious, but at least I can move on.