It's now the Nashorn engine as of Java 8

Noted!

Thanks Phil, you da MVP ;)

Couple comments,

No, this JavaScript is what runs inside rhino

It's now the Nashorn engine as of Java 8. If there are still Rhino references in the documentation I will remove them if I am aware of them.

On the global script comment, I would encourage using global scripts only for defining functions or global variables. It looks like it probably was on @pyeager 's system (otherwise 'source' is only going to be defined for Point Links and everything else will error while preparing the script engine), but that part may have been omitted.

I'm not certain if this is the right way to do it, bit it's 'a' way. You may find using the websockets and writing a handler to get the job done works better.

You could also define the point as an input of the component in its controller and then pass it in from existing components, such as was done in this thread: https://forum.infiniteautomation.com/topic/3503/how-to-chart-with-data-points-in-the-x-axis-instead-of-time/5

@MattFox

Does the code above not work inside a module?

No, this JavaScript is what runs inside rhino nashorn and has access to Java methods (Hence the data point wrapper). The mango ui uses the rest api, hence why 3.6 can use the new ui to make various data sources and events and 3.5 cannot.

For the code! Running on a few hours sleep here..

componentContriller.$inject=['maPointValues'];

function componentController(maPointValues)
{
var opts={
latest:1,
fields:['VALUE','TIMESTAMP','XID'],
Rollup:'NONE'
};
 maPointValues.getPointValuesForXid('myXid',opts).then(function( values ){
console.log( values );
});
}

https://github.com/infiniteautomation/ma-dashboards/blob/main/UI/web-src/ngMango/services/pointValues.js

I'm not certain if this is the right way to do it, bit it's 'a' way. You may find using the websockets and writing a handler to get the job done works better. YMMV

Fox

Does the code above not work inside a module?

You might find this helpful. It is an example of a technique that I use in global scripts and scripting data sources.

var query = "eq(deviceName," + source.name + ")&eq(name,Auto Limit)";
var dataPoint = DataPointQuery.query( query );
if( dataPoint.size() )
{
    limit = dataPoint[0].runtime.value;
}
else
{
    LOG.info( source.name + ": Auto Throttle: Auto Limit data point not found ");
    return;
}

I am not sure whether this works in your context, but perhaps it might be helpful.