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Scout/Tutorial/3.8/Jython Integration

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Revision as of 17:16, 1 June 2012 by Matthias.zimmermann.bsiag.com (Talk | contribs) (Play around)

Introduction

With Release 3.8 the Scout SDK offers support to integrate external JAR files into a Scout application with a few clicks. In this tutorial we use this capability to demonstrate how Jython may be integrated in your Scout application.

According to the Wiki "Jython is a Java implementation of Python" and Python itself claims "You can learn to use Python and see almost immediate gains in productivity and lower maintenance costs." In any case, we need an example library here and combining Java with a powerful scripting language can help to solve a significant variety of problems.

The result at the end of this tutorial will look similar to the screenshot below:

Jython integration.png

Building the Jythonlib.jar =

bla

Create New Scout Project and add the Library bundle

bla

Add and Configure the Form Fields on the Desktop Form

bla

Add Logic for Jython Interpreter and Interaction with Scout Form

  1. In the Scout Explorer select the RunButton element of the DesktopForm
  2. In the Scout Object Properties click on the green plus-icon next to the link Exec Click Action to add the corresponding method
  3. Replace the proposed implementation with the code provided below
 @Override
 protected void execClickAction() throws ProcessingException {
   getResultField().clearErrorStatus();
   try {
     // make sure Lib is visible to access python modules
     PySystemState sys = Py.getSystemState();
     PyString pyLibPath = new PyString("__pyclasspath__/Lib");
     
     if (!sys.path.contains(pyLibPath)) {
       sys.path.append(pyLibPath);
     }
     
     // get interpreter, read input variable from input field
     PythonInterpreter pi = new PythonInterpreter();
     pi.set(getInputField().getValue(), new PyString(getLineField().getValue()));
     
     // run script, transfer output to result field
     pi.exec(getPythonField().getValue());
     getResultField().setValue(pi.get(getOutputField().getValue()).asString());
   }
   catch (Exception e) {
     getResultField().setValue(null);
     getResultField().setErrorStatus(e.toString());
   }
 }

Remarks:

  • Updating the sys.path should conceptually go to a place where it's calles once per client startup.
  • There might be more elegant ways to ensure Jython is able to access the Python modules provided in the Lib subfolder of the jythonlib.jar.

Play around

In the Scout SDK do the following

  1. Select top level element org.eclipse.scout.jythontest in the Scout Explorer
  2. Start the server by clicking on the corresponding icon in the server box of the section Product Launchers
  3. Start a client by clicking on acorresponding icon in a client box (Swing, SWT, or RAP)
  4. The client starts and the desktop form is shown

In the Application do the following

  1. Enter some text into the Line field. For example hello world
  2. Enter a python script into the Python field. Example script:
 import re
 
 tok = input_line.split()
 out = []
 i = 0
 
 for t in tok:
   i+=1
   if re.search(t, "hello", re.I):
     out.append("[%i] %s -- HELLO FOUND" % (i,t))
   else:
     out.append("[%i] %s" % (i,t))
 
 output_text = '\n'.join(out)


  1. In field Input specify the Python variable representing the text in the Line field. For the example above, use input_line
  2. In field Output specify the Python variable holding the output of the Python script. For the example above, use output_text
  3. Click on Run. The output will then be transferred into the field Result

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