ScriptInterpreter.java

package org.apache.maven.shared.scriptinterpreter;

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import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;

/**
 * Defines a simple abstraction used to plug-in several script interpreters for the pre-/post-build-hooks. Each
 * interpreter implementation should be stateless and support reuse.
 * 
 * @author Benjamin Bentmann
 * @version $Id$
 */
public interface ScriptInterpreter
{

    /**
     * Evaluates the specified script.
     * 
     * @param script The script contents to evaluate, must not be <code>null</code>.
     * @param classPath The additional class path for the script interpreter, may be <code>null</code> or empty if only
     *            the plugin realm should be used for the script evaluation. If specified, this class path will precede
     *            the artifacts from the plugin class path.
     * @param globalVariables The global variables (as a mapping from variable name to value) to define for the script,
     *            may be <code>null</code> if not used.
     * @param scriptOutput A print stream to redirect any output from the script to, may be <code>null</code> to use
     *            stdout/stderr.
     * @return The return value from the script, can be <code>null</code>
     * @throws ScriptEvaluationException If the script evaluation produced an error.
     */
    Object evaluateScript( String script, List<String> classPath, Map<String, ? extends Object> globalVariables,
                           PrintStream scriptOutput )
        throws ScriptEvaluationException;

}