Subj : generic getter for more than 256 properties
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Brann Joly
Date : Tue May 11 2004 04:47 pm

hi:)

now my generic method wrapper question is solved, thanks to Brendan and
Shanti advices, but i'm in trouble with generic getters.
I thought the tinyid would have solved the question, but it seems to bring
two problems :
- the number of properties an object can have (including inherited
properties) is limited to 256
- i have to be carefull on the way i'm choosing my tiniyId, so that the
tinyId is never the same as another inherited property

I have found a similar thread on
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=fr&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&threadm=401ea1ba%241%4010.10.0.241&rnum=1&prev=/groups%3Fq%3D%2522256%2Bproperties%2522%2Bgroup:netscape.public.mozilla.jseng%26hl%3Dfr%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26group%3Dnetscape.public.mozilla.jseng%26selm%3D401ea1ba%25241%254010.10.0.241%26rnum%3D1
but the only answer in it is "dont use a generic getter with more than 256
properties" ...

Of course i may stick to the 256 properties limit and find some tricks for
the tinyId attribution, but isn't there a cleaner solution?
(I need to use a generic getter because the objects are created at run time,
thus denying any compile time getter generation solution)

when a native function is called, a hiden parameter ( argv[-1] ) contains
the name of the property, and i can access to its reserved slots.
is there something similar for getter functions? any hidden parameter?
If not, is there a workaround?

thanks for helping !!

Brann

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