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Execute Script Processor

The Execute Script Processor utilizes GraalVM to execute script files of a specified language. Output from a script is passed into the transaction body of a PilotFish level transaction after execution.

Select Execute Script from Processor List

Processor (Adapter) Configuration Drop-Down List

Select the Execute Script tab and click on Add Processor.

Add Script Processor

Click on Add Processor

Basic Execute Script Processor Configuration Options

Script Processor Configuration Options

Execute Script Processor Basic Configuration Options

Selecting a Language

JavaScript is included by default in the GraalVM, but you will need to install other languages to be able to run them. These will be automatically added to the Language drop-down when installed as seen below:

Select Script Execution Language

Select Script Language

To add a new language to your JVM, you can follow the instructions provided by GraalVM.

In a PilotFish installation, you can find the ‘gu’ tool inside the ‘jre/bin’ directory in your installation directory. If you have installed the runtime manually (typically via Apache Tomcat), you will need to install GraalVM as your JVM manually to run this processor instead of other flavors of the JDK. Click the link for the GraalVM Download

Note: ‘Experimental’ languages are not currently available on Windows platforms, so if you intend on working with Ruby, Python, R or something else, you will need to run on a Linux/Unix based OS.

Selecting Your Script

To select a script to run, you can select a file directly from the GUI by clicking the ellipse ‘…’ to the right of the configuration and navigating to your script file:

Select Script to Execute

Select Script Configuration File

Alternatively, a more encapsulated approach would be to store your scripts in a directory within the Interface running the Route. In this example, it is stored in a data folder in the interface directory:

Example of Scripts Stored within Interface

Select Script File

Attribute Reference

The ‘Attribute Reference’ field allows you to configure the reserved word within your script to directly call into PilotFish level transaction attributes. You can access primitives or even call Java methods available on Java objects. For example:

You have a transaction attribute called ‘unique_id’, which represents some UUID you have generated as a part of your route processing. To access this within the script, we can reference the attributes by the reference value given in the configuration, which is by default ‘attributes’. In a simple JavaScript example that would be accessed as follows:

attributes.getAttribute(‘unique_id’)

Arguments

The arguments table is a key/value representation of command line arguments that would be passed into the script. The key field is purely for documentation purposes and does not get passed into the program. The value of the table is what gets passed into the script. The order they are passed is from the top down in the list.

Enable Debug Output

Enabling debug output can be very verbose but may prove useful if hitting any issues when running a script. It is recommended that it only be turned on when necessary as it can potentially impact performance and fill up logs.

Conditional Execution of the Execute Script Processor

On the Conditional Execution tab, you can set additional Processor execution conditions. The transaction data dependent condition may be specified here as an enhanced expression. If this expression returns anything other than TRUE (ignore case) – this processor will be skipped. No additional configuration for this Processor is required.

Script Processor Conditional Configuration Options

Conditional Execution of the Execute Script Processor

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