Shell script calling from Javascript

Hi @Harihara28692478zxj6 , I’m not sure if this helps with UXP, but with ExtendScript you could easily call an AppleScipt containing the shell script. Here I have an Applescript saved to the desktop as text (.applescript extension), with a simple date shell script:

tell application id "com.adobe.indesign"
	activate
	set dt to do shell script "date +%D"
	display dialog dt
end tell

Then a JS calls the AppleScript:

//applescript saved as text
var as = readFile(Folder.desktop + "/shellScript.applescript")
app.doScript(as, ScriptLanguage.applescriptLanguage);


/**
* Read a text file 
* @ param p the path to the text file 
* @ return the file‘s text 
*/

function readFile(p) {
	var f = new File(p);
	f.open("r");  
	var x = f.read(); 
	f.close();
	return x;
}

Result:

Hi Harihara, there were quite a few problems with your script. For example in one case you try to use a variable before you have declared it. In another case the you did not escape quote characters in your paths, or maybe just got the string quoting wrong—it was hard to tell—or it could have been ruined when you pasted it into the forum (it's best to use the code </> button to format code).

Also I suggest you do not store your resources (see "var Str =") inside the Adobe Indesign app folder, because this will change when a new version is installed, and may even be deleted!

Here is a version of your code that I fixed so that the script file gets saved successfully, but your code was missing a bunch of variables so I just filled them with "test" strings. Have a careful look and see what I changed.

- Mark

// I added these vars just for this demo
// but you need to make sure they exist
var fURLWebSiteName = "test1",
    fidUserIDInformation = "test2",
    fidPasswordInformation = "test3",
    fCurntPageName = "test4",
    fidsURL_Image_Page_ScreenShot_Infrms = "test5",
    fProcessingInfo = "test6";

//==============================================//
var fImageFolderPath = "~/Desktop/Development"
var connetProcessSH_File = new File(Folder(fImageFolderPath) + "/TempProcess/connectURL.sh");

if (File(Folder(fImageFolderPath) + "/TempProcess/connectProcess.sh").exists) {
    File(Folder(fImageFolderPath) + "/TempProcess/connectProcess.sh").remove();
}

var Str = "cd " + "\"" + "/Applications/Adobe InDesign 2023/Scripts/Scripts Panel/Workflow_Development/BoardNdSource" + "\"" + "\n";
Str += "/usr/local/bin/node index.js " + "\"" + fURLWebSiteName + "\"" + " " + "\"" + fidUserIDInformation + "\"" + " ";
Str += "\"" + fidPasswordInformation + "\"" + " " + "\"" + "Page_" + fCurntPageName + ".jpg" + "\"" + " " + "\"" + fImageFolderPath + "\"" + " ";
Str += "\"" + fidsURL_Image_Page_ScreenShot_Infrms + "\"" + " " + "\"" + fProcessingInfo + "\"";

connetProcessSH_File.encoding = "UTF-8";
connetProcessSH_File.open("w");
connetProcessSH_File.write(Str);
connetProcessSH_File.close();

scpt = connetProcessSH_File.fsName;

shell("sh " + scpt)

function shell(cmd) {
    var
        rv,
        call = 'do shell script "' + cmd.replace(/\\/g, "\\\\").replace(/"/g, '\\"') + '"';

    try {
        rv = app.doScript(call, ScriptLanguage.APPLESCRIPT_LANGUAGE);
    } catch (e0) {
        rv = e0 + "\n" + (rv ? "" : rv);
    }
    return rv;
}

//==============================================//

I did not evaluate the shell script itself, but this is the output I got with the above script:

cd "/Applications/Adobe InDesign 2023/Scripts/Scripts Panel/Workflow_Development/BoardNdSource"
/usr/local/bin/node index.js "test1" "test2" "test3" "Page_test4.jpg" "~/Desktop/Development" "test5" "test6"

 I think you may need to put semi-colon ; between commands (eg. after BoardNdSource"), but I'm not a shell script expert.

Do you get any errors when executing your script. In the past I create a command file instead of sh file and then executed it directly with the execute method of the File object, you can try that as well

-Manan