Package groovy.lang

Annotation Type GrabConfig

@Retention(SOURCE)
@Target({CONSTRUCTOR,FIELD,LOCAL_VARIABLE,METHOD,PARAMETER,TYPE})
public @interface GrabConfig

Used to modify the grape configuration for grab requests.

An example involving databases:

 @Grab('mysql:mysql-connector-java:5.1.6')
 @GrabConfig(systemClassLoader=true)
 import groovy.sql.Sql

 def sql=Sql.newInstance("jdbc:mysql://localhost/test", "user", "password", "com.mysql.jdbc.Driver")
 println sql.firstRow('SELECT * FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS')
 

Another example involving XStream:

 @Grab('com.thoughtworks.xstream:xstream:1.4.9')
 @Grab('xpp3:xpp3_min:1.1.4c')
 @GrabConfig(systemClassLoader=true, initContextClassLoader=true)
 
 import com.thoughtworks.xstream.*

 class Staff {
     String firstname, lastname, position
 }

 def xstream = new XStream()
 def john1 = new Staff(firstname:'John',
                      lastname:'Connor',
                      position:'Resistance Leader')

 // write out to XML file
 new File("john.xml").withOutputStream { out ->
     xstream.toXML(john1, out)
 }

 // now read back in
 def john2
 new File("john.xml").withInputStream { ins ->
     john2 = xstream.fromXML(ins)
 }

 println john2.dump()
 
 

Further information about customising grape behavior can be found on the Grape documentation page: http://groovy-lang.org/grape.html.

Optional Element Summary

Optional Elements

Modifier and Type	Optional Element	Description
boolean	autoDownload	Set to false if you want to disable automatic downloading of locally missing jars.
boolean	disableChecksums	Set to true if you want to disable checksum checking.
boolean	initContextClassLoader	Set to true if you want the context classloader to be initialised to the classloader of the current class or script.
boolean	systemClassLoader	Set to true if you want to use the system classloader when loading the grape.
java.lang.String[]	systemProperties	Define any system properties which must be set before invoking the grab - useful for declaring SSL certificates or proxy settings.

Element Details

systemClassLoader

boolean systemClassLoader

Set to true if you want to use the system classloader when loading the grape. This is normally only required when a core Java class needs to reference the grabbed classes, e.g. for a database driver accessed using DriverManager.

Default:

false

systemProperties

java.lang.String[] systemProperties

Define any system properties which must be set before invoking the grab - useful for declaring SSL certificates or proxy settings. Currently, this only affects the generated class or script. You may need to also set those same properties for the Groovy compiler. For convenience, a String with comma separated name=value pairs can be used in addition to an array (using Groovy's literal list notation) of String name=value items. The single String shorthand form can't be used if value part of a property contains a comma.

Since:

2.4.5

Default:

{""}

initContextClassLoader

boolean initContextClassLoader

Set to true if you want the context classloader to be initialised to the classloader of the current class or script. This is useful for libraries or frameworks that assume that the context classloader has been set. But be careful when using this flag as your script or class might behave differently when called directly (from the command line or from an IDE) versus when called from within a container, e.g. a web container or a JEE container.

Default:

false

autoDownload

boolean autoDownload

Set to false if you want to disable automatic downloading of locally missing jars.

Default:

true

disableChecksums

boolean disableChecksums

Set to true if you want to disable checksum checking.

Default:

false