Subj : Get, Put methods of the Scriptable interface
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : cyberlync@yahoo.com (Eric Merritt)
Date : Sun Aug 31 2003 04:07 pm

Hello all,

 Thanks to everyones help (Igors in particular) I am moving right
along with my embedding project. However, I have run into another
conundrum that I would like some advice about.

 I am current wrappering up JDBC support for the embedded scripts. For
the most part, this is pretty simple. However, when I got to the
rowset object I ran into some problems. I would love for data to be
accessed in the rowset as it is in a javascript array. For example,
say we had a row with the following fields: 'username', 'md5pass',
'timestamp'. You could script it as follows.

 var database = new Database('somejndicontext');
 var rows = database.query('select * from sometable');
 
  rows.nextRow()
  
  rows["username"] = "AName"; 
  rows["md5pass"] = "HAHA";
  rows.save();

  //or
  
  rows[0] = "AName"; 
  rows[1] = "HAHA";
  rows.save();

 The above is pretty simple to do with the 'get' and 'put' methods
that you must implement for Scriptable. However, it seams that you
must also return methods from get as well as properties. This isn't
really to big a deal using the string index, it gets more interesint
for the int index however. If you allow the int index how do the
indexes map to properties/functions. If you have twenty available
methods do the properties start at 21 or would it be the other way
around. If the first case is true then you would use couldnt do row[0]
= "AName"; you would have to do row[21] = "AName";. This would be a
bit counter intuative to the users. Either way the implementation
itself is pretty simple, I am just looking for a bit of advice from
you guys who are more experienced in rhino and javascript.

.