Subj : object serialization
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Jens Thiele <karme@unforgettable.com>
Date : Wed Mar 24 2004 12:13 pm

i am currently getting started with embedding spidermonkey
i have to send pure javascript objects (without native methods) via
network (serialize/deserialize)
where to start?

i have seen a thread mentioning Script.freeze
but it seems this is disabled in the debian build of the spidermonkey
package - and in the source there is this comment:

jsscript.c:
[...]
#if JS_HAS_XDR_FREEZE_THAW
/*
 * These cannot be exposed to web content, and chrome does not need them, so
 * we take them out of the Mozilla client altogether.  Fortunately, there is
 * no way to serialize a native function (see fun_xdrObject in jsfun.c).
 */

static JSBool
script_freeze(JSContext *cx, JSObject *obj, uintN argc, jsval *argv,
              jsval *rval)
{
[...]

i need a fast, secure and compact (serialzed objects should be small)
solution

thx
karme

PS: spidermonkey is great so far

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