Does org-babel for groovy take arguments?

Question

I am trying to pass an argument to a groovy babel block but I'm not sure it accepts arguments? The documentation says that it is language-specific but I didn't find any documentation for ob-groovy.

For example, I want to try to feed one section of my document into the groovy block:

#+NAME:current_paths

path1
path2
path3


** Groovy Processing
#+BEGIN_SRC groovy :var paths=current_paths :results output :cache yes
    paths.each {
      println "PATH: $it"
    }
#+END_SRC

But I get:

Caught: groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: 
No such property: paths     for class: groovy-6160mqV
    at groovy-6160mqV.run(groovy-6160mqV:2)

Does anyone know if groovy babel support includes arguments? Or maybe I'm doing this wrong?

Answer 1

Looking at the source code you linked, it seems that no, there is no support for the :vars parameter.

The :results and :cache parameters should be handled directly by org-babel so these should work.

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If you're interested in the details, the function used to expand the source code body (mainly in charge of adding code before and after, and initializing variables) is the generic function org-babel-expand-body:generic (not a groovy-specific function), and the third (optional) parameter of this function (lines to add to define variables) is not specified.