Executing a string related to source code, not the command line

[Arun]

How can i execute a string, for example:

int x = 2;
int y = 4;
int z;
String command = " z = x*y "


For some background on why i want to do this:


I have an element tree.
To add a certain element, i need to use the following command:
element.getChild("bla").setContent(newElement);

Problem is that the number of .getChild() corresponds to the element
depth in the tree.
So if its depth was two, then the command would be:
element.getChild("bla's dad").getChild("bla").setContent(newElement);

I can't do a for loop and then with every iteration get the child from
the previous child, because when i add an element i won't be adding it
to the whole element tree, il just be adding it to the previous
element.

I could build the whole tree again but that seems wasteful.

 

[Arun]

Let me rephrase the third paragraph:

I cant do a for loop because when i add an element, i will only be
adding it to its parent (which now will exist as its own element).
Instead i want to add the element to the whole tree.

 

[Michael Borgwardt]

How can i execute a string, for example:

int x = 2;
int y = 4;
int z;
String command = " z = x*y "

Compile it, then load the resulting class.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/solaris/javac.html#proginterface

But that's really not what you need to solve your problem.

 

[Michael Borgwardt]

Let me rephrase the third paragraph:

I cant do a for loop because when i add an element, i will only be
adding it to its parent (which now will exist as its own element).
Instead i want to add the element to the whole tree.

I'm not sure what you mean with "add the element to the whole tree",
but whatever you want to do with that tree, you DON'T need to
compile any java code on the fly for it! Loops and recursion (or stacks)
can do anything that can be done with a tree.

 

[anonymous]

Compile it, then load the resulting class.
http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/tooldocs/solaris/javac.html#proginterface


But that's really not what you need to solve your problem.

Oh well, REXX has the interpret instruction. A life saver..