Subj : Re: Binding a global object (again)
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : jjl@pobox.com (John J. Lee)
Date : Sun Aug 31 2003 12:31 am

Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net> writes:

> John J. Lee wrote:
> 
> > I made a second attempt to bind a Python class to the JS global
> > object.  This time, my getProperty routine isn't getting called to
> > look up Python attributes on the global object.  Previously, I've got
> > by just using getProperty and setProperty.  Presumably I need to
> > provide some other functions -- lookupProperty or hasInstance, maybe?
> 
> Why are you implementing JSObjectOps?

I'm not.  None of the JSClass functions appear to be what I (appear
to) need, so I looked at JSPropertyOps.

I don't understand why my getProperty function isn't getting called in
that case, but my working assumption is that I need to provide some
other similar function to the JS engine.  Am I wrong?  I certainly
can't guess why I *should* need such a function, but OTOH I can't
guess where else the problem might lie.


> It's not frozen and not documented.

It is briefly documented here:

http://www.mozilla.org/js/spidermonkey/apidoc/gen/complete.html

and also in jspubtd.h.  Curious, I don't recall having seen an open
source project suffer from too much documentation before ;-)


John

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