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

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

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

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.