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[WIP] Use v8 engine for CSL #2250

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Add a dependency to com.eclipsesource.J2V8 (Java Bindings for V8) in …
shitikanth Nov 8, 2016
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Make sure that V8 dependency is available.
shitikanth Nov 16, 2016
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Add entry for J2V8 in external-libraries.txt.
shitikanth Nov 16, 2016
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Removed space from licence identifier.
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Expand Up @@ -65,6 +65,26 @@ configurations {
integrationTestRuntime.extendsFrom testRuntime
}

def getV8Dependency() {
def arch = System.getProperty('os.arch')
def dep = null
if (OperatingSystem.current().isWindows()) {
dep = 'win32_x86'
if (arch.equals('amd64')) {
dep += '_64'
}
} else if (OperatingSystem.current().isMacOsX() && (arch.equals('amd64') || arch.equals('x86_64'))) {
dep = 'macosx_x86_64'
} else if (OperatingSystem.current().isLinux() && arch.equals('amd64')) {
dep = 'linux_x86_64'
}
if (dep == null) {
logger.error("Could not find V8 runtime compatible to this system")
return null
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Can't we just return an empty string here so that it compiles at other platforms, too?

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Hmm, that is a good idea, but the jar we produce will still not be platform independent (as @matthiasgeiger mentioned). Maybe we can define different gradle tasks for a platform independent jar and platform specific builds.

What do you guys feel about just directly implementing citeproc natively in Java? I can take it up if you think that it will be worthwhile.

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Seeing that (i) the current rendering is very slow and (ii) others will surely use that library too, citeproc natively in Java is a huge win for the community.

I fear, however, that it will be a huge effort and we would also need that effort in JabRef itself.

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What do you guys feel about just directly implementing citeproc natively in Java? I can take it up if you think that it will be worthwhile.

Hi all, CSL maintainer here. I have never worked on a citeproc implementation myself, but just a friendly warning that supporting the full CSL 1.0.1 specification is a significant undertaking. I'm cc'ing some developers who might be able to give you some additional pointers/warnings.

(cc @michel-kraemer (citeproc-java), @fbennett (citeproc-js), @inukshuk (citeproc-ruby))

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I can confirm this. In fact, I initially thought about creating a pure Java implementation myself, but citeproc-js is so mature and well-maintained, you'll probably never reach the same quality -- at least I would never be able to do so.

Anyway, there are a couple of options to improve the performance of citeproc-java. You already discovered you can use V8, although it isn't documented anywhere. You might be able to improve the performance further by caching the processor instance. But maybe you already do so, I don't know your code well enough. If you're interested we can discuss this topic further. I'd be more than happy to help.

}
return 'com.eclipsesource.j2v8:j2v8_' + dep + ':4.5.0'
}

dependencies {
compile 'com.jgoodies:jgoodies-common:1.8.1'
compile 'com.jgoodies:jgoodies-forms:1.9.0'
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compile 'org.citationstyles:locales:1.0.1-SNAPSHOT'
compile 'de.undercouch:citeproc-java:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT'

compile getV8Dependency()

testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
testCompile 'org.mockito:mockito-core:2.2.9'
testCompile 'com.github.tomakehurst:wiremock:2.2.2'
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