Re: how to access 'Variables' variable

On 7 Apr 2005, at 15:31, Gayathri Karthik wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> Everytime i execute something ( i mean add a variable declaration and
> initialize it for example) on the groovy console, i see 'Variables'
> getting updated to reflect the current global variables. That looks
> cool. Is there anyways i can access it in my code? It looks like a
> Map.Can I directly bind functions to global scope by adding the entry
> to the 'Variables' map?

If you're embedding Groovy in your code you can access this from the 
GroovyShell. See the getContext() method

http://groovy.codehaus.org/apidocs/groovy/lang/GroovyShell.html

which returns a Binding

http://groovy.codehaus.org/apidocs/groovy/lang/Binding.html

Inside a shell script you can access the variable 'shell'.
e.g. to display the variables

for (e in shell.context.variables) {
     println "variable $e.key has value $e.value"
}

James
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