Replace <Unknown Source> in Java Rhino (JSR223) with actual file name

Question

In my code, all of the scripts are contained in .js files. Whenever one of the scripts contains an error, I get this:

javax.script.ScriptException: sun.org.mozilla.javascript.internal.EcmaError: ReferenceError: "nonexistant" is not defined. (<Unknown source>#5) in <Unknown source> at line number 5

What bugs me is the <Unknown Source>. Multiple files are in one ScriptContext, and it can be hard to track down an error. It also looks horrible.

Is there a way to replace <Unknown Source> with the actual file name? None of the methods I see support passing a File object, so I'm really confused here.

Answer 1

Use the ScriptEngine.FILENAME constant:

scriptEngine.put(ScriptEngine.FILENAME, scriptFile.toString());

Answer 2

The question hasn't been specifically asked yet, but I thought I'd offer this to anyone who stumbles upon this topic in the future: this will change when Java 8 is released and we move from Rhino to Nashorn as the underlying JavaScript engine. Under Nashorn, the file name is applied to the ScriptContext, rather than to the ScriptEngine itself:

ScriptContext context = new SimpleScriptContext();
context.setAttribute(ScriptEngine.FILENAME, "test.js", ScriptContext.ENGINE_SCOPE);
try
{
    engine.eval(script, context);
}
catch (ScriptException e)
{
    /* e.getFileName() will return "test.js" */
}

If you attempt to apply the file name using ScriptEngine.put(), as you do under Rhino, nothing will happen and your exceptions will return "<eval>" as the file name.

I would imagine that a few people will run into this issue in the coming months, so thought I'd offer it. This does not appear to be documented anywhere. I had to dig into the Nashorn source code to figure it out.

Answer 3

The Java 8 (Nashorn) way of setting the filename for the script engine through the ScriptContext figured out by mattj65816, works for the Rhino engine as well. So, I'd recommend using only

context.setAttribute(ScriptEngine.FILENAME, "test.js", ScriptContext.ENGINE_SCOPE);

since this piece of code works for both common JavaScript engines. You don't event need to create you own context, but only set the attribute to the engine's default context:

ScriptEngineManager manager = new ScriptEngineManager();
ScriptEngine engine = manager.getEngineByName("JavaScript");
if (engine != null) {
    ScriptContext ctx = engine.getContext();
    ctx.setAttribute(ScriptEngine.FILENAME, "test.js", ScriptContext.ENGINE_SCOPE);
    ...
}