Subj : Re: Byte Arrays in JavaScript
To   : Sajid Raza
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Mon May 24 2004 02:57 pm

Sajid Raza wrote:
> Brendan Eich wrote:
> 
>> By using the resolve hook.
>  
> Thanks Brendan, finally got it. Previously, I didn't understand that the 
> JSClass ops provide a hooking mechanism into the script engine's 
> property retrieval and resolution functionality.
> 
> It puzzled me to no end how my JSClass.getProperty function would 
> magically produce the property value in the rval parameter. Running the 
> console interpreter in gdb and tracing out how property values are 
> retrieved prior to calling OBJ_GET_PROPERTY helps explain things.


When you start using JSPROP_SHARED, you'll find that the "last got" 
value won't be "cached" -- precisely because JSPROP_SHARED turns off the 
allocation of a jsval slot for the property.

So you'll want to have your byte-array value storage hooked up at that 
point. ;-)

/be

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