Subj : request for new feature in spidermonkey (or workaround)
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brann Joly
Date : Mon May 10 2004 05:07 pm

Hi,

In the getter protoype, there is an extra parameter "tinyid" enabling the
getter function to know which member of the object was requested.

I can't find any way to do the same things with methods (i'd like
spidermonkey to call the c++ function associated with the js method with an
extra parameter containing kind of tinyid identifying the called method.

The reason why i want to do that is that i want to make available to
javascript some objects i don't know about at compile time (since i cant
create the wrappers at compile time, i would need to create'em at runtime,
but it doesn't seem to be possible in c++)

The member functions of the c++ objects are called via a message system, so
with the extra parameter i'm asking for, i would be able to determine the
message id to send, according to the tiny id provided by spidermonkey

is such an improvement possible in spidermonkey?

is there another way to do what i'd like to do without messing with the way
spidermonkey works?

A possible workaround would be to generate a c++ file containing the
wrappers at run time, to compile it into a dll, and to link it, but i dont
want to go into such a trick for now:)

Thanks for the hints :)

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