This is a copy-paste problem. If you copy the text first to a standard text editor (like notepad), you'll see "def xwiki" and "def context" are in the same line, unfortunately this is not actually allowed by the groovy parser UNLESS you put a ";" after each line (it's only the first two lines of the class that has this problem for the example). I'll add some text to the example to highlight this.

-----Original Message----- From: roopesh(a)digitalglue.in [mailto:roopesh@digitalglue.in] Sent: 24 April 2007 08:20 To: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org Subject: [xwiki-users] Groovy tutorial in dev guide Hi I tried to follow the Groovy Tutorial given in the developer guide. But I couldn't make it run. (http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/ GroovyClassHelloWorldTutor ial) Instantiating groovy class from velocity threw the foll error : Error number 4001 in 4: Error while parsing velocity page Main.HelloWorldFromVelocity Wrapped Exception: Invocation of method 'parseGroovyFromPage' in class com.xpn.xwiki.api.XWiki threw exception com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 14001 in 14: Failed compiling groovy script Wrapped Exception: startup failed, script1177398554781.groovy: 5: unexpected token: xwiki @ line 5, column 5. Instantiating groovy from groovy resulted in the foll error : Error number 4002 in 4: Error while parsing groovy page Groovy.HelloWorldClassTest Wrapped Exception: startup failed, Script1.groovy: 3: unexpected token: groovyObject @ line 3, column 68. (While creating the class I have assigned programming rights to the user who made the class.) What am I doing wrong. Thanks and Regards Roopesh -- You receive this message as a subscriber of the xwiki- users(a)objectweb.org mailing list. To unsubscribe: mailto:xwiki-users-unsubscribe@objectweb.org For general help: mailto:sympa@objectweb.org?subject=help ObjectWeb mailing lists service home page: http://www.objectweb.org/ wws

Fairly said, I'm sure Guillaume would object - given that it's not exactly pure in that sense. As to why the error happens for copy-paste, from what I can see this removes important linefeeds (if you copy-paste from the same page, you'll see this when you paste into a standard ASCII editor, eg notepad); the first two lines join and the Groovy parser tries to process "def xwiki def context" as one instruction instead of two instructions. The only difference now is that the ";" forces the parser to start a new instruction, so "def xwiki; def context" is processed as two separate instructions. IIRC, some platforms treat linefeed differently, so this may not even be a problem if you use *nix to copy the text. Perhaps something could be done to make the {code} put hard breaks between lines though?

Then this change (or even the warning) wouldn't be needed. -----Original Message----- From: Vincent Massol [mailto:vincent@massol.net] Sent: 24 April 2007 13:28 To: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org Subject: Re: [xwiki-users] Groovy tutorial in dev guide Hi Brandon, On Apr 24, 2007, at 10:24 AM, Esbach, Brandon wrote: I see you've modified the page on xwiki.org, cool. However I know for sure that Groovy purists will not like the change as they consider that Groovy code shouldn't have any semicolon (";") at all. I know Guillaume Laforge wouldn't like it for example... Thus I think we shouldn't add them, especially as they're not necessary. I don't understand why a copy paste wouldn't work. In any case I'd prefer a warning rather than having to make the code less good. WDYT? Thanks -Vincent > -----Original Message----- > From: roopesh(a)digitalglue.in [mailto:roopesh@digitalglue.in] > Sent: 24 April 2007 08:20 > To: xwiki-users(a)objectweb.org > Subject: [xwiki-users] Groovy tutorial in dev guide > > Hi > > I tried to follow the Groovy Tutorial given in the developer guide. > But > I couldn't make it run. > (http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/ > GroovyClassHelloWorldTutor > ial) > > > Instantiating groovy class from velocity threw the foll error : > > Error number 4001 in 4: Error while parsing velocity page > Main.HelloWorldFromVelocity Wrapped Exception: Invocation of method > 'parseGroovyFromPage' in class com.xpn.xwiki.api.XWiki threw > exception > com.xpn.xwiki.XWikiException: Error number 14001 in 14: Failed > compiling groovy script Wrapped Exception: startup failed, > script1177398554781.groovy: 5: unexpected token: xwiki @ line 5, > column 5. > > > Instantiating groovy from groovy resulted in the foll error : > > Error number 4002 in 4: Error while parsing groovy page > Groovy.HelloWorldClassTest Wrapped Exception: startup failed, > Script1.groovy: 3: unexpected token: groovyObject @ line 3, column > 68. > > (While creating the class I have assigned programming rights to the > user who made the class.) What am I doing wrong. > > Thanks and Regards > Roopesh