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How to automatically generate a png export from a .ndbx file in a command line (with a script)?

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Gilbert Perrin

01 Jul, 2013 10:03 AM

Hello,
I made a nodebox 3 file (.ndbx) that generates a dashboard of a production status.
It is based on csv files that change every day.
For the moment, I have to open each day the nodebox file manually and generate the png.
I would like to generate automatically the dashboard with a script that I could execute with our Continuous Integration System.
Is there a way to call nodebox3 in a command line with a .nbdx file and tell it to generate a png image?
Thank you!
Gilbert

1. Support Staff 1 Posted by Frederik De Ble... on 30 Jun, 2014 08:20 PM

   

   Hi,

   I've added a GitHub Issue that tracks this.

   I've also solved it :-)

   The nodebox.jar now has a new class, nodebox.NodeBox, that serves as a command-line tool renderer.

   Since you don't only need the nodebox.jar but also all of its dependencies, you first need to find the full classpath. Use ant classpath for this:

   ant classpath
   ...
   classpath:
        [echo] /Users/USERNAME/.m2/repository/org/clojure/clojure/1.6.0/clojure-1.6.0.jar:...
   

   Copy the full classpath, and invoke it like this:

   java -cp CLASSPATH nodebox.NodeBox YOURFILE.ndbx
   

   Example:

   java -cp /Users/USERNAME/.m2/repository/org/clojure/clojure/1.6.0/clojure-1.6.0.jar:... nodebox.NodeBox ~/Desktop/colors.ndbx
   

   This will generate a file in the same folder with the PNG extension.

   There are two options:

   • -o FILE Allows you to override the output file
   • -l FILE Allows you to specify the location of the libraries folder, which contains the NodeBox system libraries. (By default we look in the current directory for a libraries folder)

   Hope this helps,

   F

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2. Support Staff 2 Posted by Frederik De Ble... on 30 Jun, 2014 10:21 PM

   

   The NodeBox JAR now contains all dependencies, so assuming you're in the root of the NodeBox Git repo, you can just do:

   java -jar dist/lib/nodebox.jar YOURFILE.ndbx
   

   You still need to refer to the system libraries folder.

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