topic Re: Cannot find scripting engine for 'groovy' in Alfresco Archive

Cannot find scripting engine for 'groovy'

swamy2156 — Thu, 12 Dec 2013 17:49:04 GMT

I am using Groovy script for my BPMN modal. I am getting the following exception though I was added dependency for groovy-all.jar in my pom. These are the dependencies added in my POM. Anyone has any idea why I am getting this exception thought I added dependencies which are required. <depende

Re: Cannot find scripting engine for 'groovy'

jbarrez — Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:37:54 GMT

Could you try a more recent version? The latest seems to be 2.2.1

Re: Cannot find scripting engine for 'groovy'

swamy2156 — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 13:23:10 GMT

same issue even using with 2.2.1 version. Interesting thing is that, very occasionally groovy scripts are getting executed by groovy engine. For a fresh deployment of application, for first request, groovy gets executed. for subsequent requests having this issue.

regards,
Swamy.

Re: Cannot find scripting engine for 'groovy'

trademak — Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:25:33 GMT

It should work fine with 2.1.3. Can you create a unit test project showing your problem?

Thanks,

Re: Cannot find scripting engine for 'groovy'

poseidonjm — Tue, 08 Apr 2014 22:20:02 GMT

Seems like activity 5.15 and 5.15.1 supports groovy up to 1.8.9

Maven dependencies:
<code>
<dependency>
      <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
      <artifactId>groovy</artifactId>
      <version>1.8.9</version>
    </dependency>

</code>
If you change to groovy 2.0.0 the test will fail
org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException: Can't find scripting engine for 'groovy'

Source code from Activiti in Action https://code.google.com/p/activitiinaction/downloads/list
<java>
public class RuntimeServiceTest {

private static RuntimeService runtimeService;

@BeforeClass
public static void init() {
ProcessEngine processEngine = ProcessEngineConfiguration
   .createStandaloneInMemProcessEngineConfiguration()
    .buildProcessEngine();

RepositoryService repositoryService = processEngine.getRepositoryService();
repositoryService.createDeployment()
   .addClasspathResource("chapter4/bookorder.bpmn20.xml")
   .deploy();

runtimeService = processEngine.getRuntimeService();
}

@Test
public void startProcessInstance() {
Map<String, Object> variableMap = new HashMap<String, Object>();
variableMap.put("isbn", "123456");
ProcessInstance processInstance = runtimeService.startProcessInstanceByKey("bookorder", variableMap);
assertNotNull(processInstance.getId());
System.out.println("id " + processInstance.getId() + " "
    + processInstance.getProcessDefinitionId());
}

}
</java>

Re: Cannot find scripting engine for 'groovy'

trademak — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 08:25:45 GMT

Okay, could you raise a JIRA for this?

Thanks,

Re: Cannot find scripting engine for 'groovy'

poseidonjm — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 17:01:46 GMT

Opened an issue http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-1984

Re: Cannot find scripting engine for 'groovy'

poseidonjm — Thu, 10 Apr 2014 22:14:11 GMT

As Joram Barrez says
https://jira.codehaus.org/browse/ACT-1984

the solutions is change groovy to groovy-all
issue resolved
<code>
<dependency>
      <groupId>org.codehaus.groovy</groupId>
      <artifactId>groovy-all</artifactId>
      <version>2.2.2</version>
    </dependency>
</code>

Re: Cannot find scripting engine for 'groovy'

ndup0nt — Thu, 04 Jun 2015 10:11:59 GMT

Same exception (org.activiti.engine.ActivitiException: Can't find scripting engine for 'groovy') still occurs (randomly ?) in Activiti 5.17. Seems to happen with the first instance only of a process.

Re: Cannot find scripting engine for 'groovy'

jbarrez — Thu, 11 Jun 2015 15:15:02 GMT

That seems odd. You sure you have groovy-all on the classpath?
Do you have an example of a process where it fails?

Re: Cannot find scripting engine for 'groovy'

venziait — Wed, 31 Aug 2016 22:27:26 GMT

YES!! the version is very important!
Thank you jbarrez!