ES6 and JavaImporter

Hannes Wallnöfer hannes.wallnoefer at oracle.com
Fri Jan 19 14:24:02 UTC 2018


Brad,

I as I wrote in my last reply to this list, ES6 support is quite incomplete in Nashorn.

However, that doesn’t really explain this error. I’m looking into it and will file a bug.

Hannes

> Am 19.01.2018 um 04:06 schrieb Brad Grier <bradgrier at cox.net>:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I wanted to experiment with the Java 9 ES6 features in my software.
> Unfortunately I can't get far because of an issue involving JavaImporter. I
> created a simple jjs example that illustrates the problem. The script works
> under ES5 but fails under ES6 with:  ./pg4.js:6 ReferenceError: "printIt"
> is not defined
> 
> #!/usr/bin/jjs -J-Dnashorn.args=--language=es6
> 
> var imports = new JavaImporter(java.util);
> with(imports){
> 
>        function printIt(a){
>                print("map: " + a);
>        }
> 
>        function printAndClear(b){
>                printIt(b);
>                b.clear();
>        }
> 
>        var map = new HashMap();
>        map.put('js', 'javascript');
>        map.put("java", "java");
>        printAndClear(map);
> }
> 
> Thanks. I'm using build 9.0.1+11 on OS X.
> 
> Brad



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