How do I get a ScriptEngine by language name and version?
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This example show you how you can obtain a script engine for a specific language name and specific language version. In the code below we try to obtain script engine instance for ECMAScript version 1.6.
package org.kodejava.example.script;
import javax.script.ScriptEngineManager;
import javax.script.ScriptEngineFactory;
import javax.script.ScriptEngine;
import javax.script.ScriptException;
import java.util.List;
public class ScriptEngineSearch {
public static void main(String[] args) {
String languageName = "ECMAScript";
String languageVersion = "1.6";
//
// Creating a ScriptEngineManager and get the list of available
// engine factories.
//
ScriptEngineManager manager = new ScriptEngineManager();
List<ScriptEngineFactory> factories = manager.getEngineFactories();
//
// We obtain a ScriptEngine from the available factories where
// the language name is ECMAScript and the version is 1.6.
// ECMAScript is the standard name for JavaScript programming
// language. If we found the desired language we then get the
// ScriptEngine by calling factory's getScriptEngine() method.
//
ScriptEngine engine = null;
for (ScriptEngineFactory factory : factories) {
String language = factory.getLanguageName();
String version = factory.getLanguageVersion();
if (language.equals(languageName)
&& version.equals(languageVersion)) {
engine = factory.getScriptEngine();
break;
}
}
if (engine != null) {
try {
engine.eval("print('Hello There')");
} catch (ScriptException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
}
}
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