Subj : Re: Serializing JavaScript in spidermonkey
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Marcello Bastea-Forte <marcello@TEHSPAMcellosoft.com>
Date : Thu Jan 01 2004 01:47 pm

Martin Honnen wrote:

> Is there any reason you need new Array()? I think if you do
>    var state = new Object();
> and
>    state['array'] = new Object();
> the uneval works just fine.

Sweetness, thanks a bunch. :-)  Works now.

Now I have to figure out how to do this in C++... *runs off*

....

*wanders back* So here's what I ended up with (and it works!), but I'm 
still slightly confused about when I let spidermonkey free memory, and 
when I have to:

void JavaScript::serialize(JSObject *obj, ostream &os) {
	jsval ret;
	if (JS_TRUE == JS_CallFunctionName(cx, obj, "toSource", 0, NULL, &ret) 
&& JSVAL_IS_STRING(ret)) {
		os << JS_GetStringBytes(JSVAL_TO_STRING(ret));
		/* Do I need to free the string (ret) somehow, here? Or does the gc 
deal with it automatically? (my guess is the latter, but better to know 
if I'm doing something wrong at this point than later. */
	}
}

Marcello

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