Refreshing Project Library Script or creating bindings with gateway script values

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An expression binding can dereference entries in a document tag much faster and more efficiently that jython can. runScript() and friends have substantial startup overhead. If MiRData.robots is composed of python-standard lists and/or dictionaries, it is directly assignable to a document tag.

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Among other things, it's objectScript() expression function includes a shortcircuit for referencing project library top-level objects without actually launching a jython interpreter. That is, instead of:

runScript("MiRData.getrobot",5000,{path.to.index},{path.to.key})

You could use:

objectScript("MiRData.robots")[{path.to.index}][{path.to.key}]

But this is probably best:

{path/to/MiRData/robotsDocumentTag}[{path.to.index}][{path.to.key}]

Note the use of an expression binding's [] operator for list or map dereferencing.

(You can wrap these expressions with timeMe() to compare performance.)