Subj : Re: Announce: egachine 0.1.0
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Shanti Rao
Date : Tue Nov 23 2004 05:28 pm

Why

File.open("Makefile",File.mode.read)

instead of

new File("Makefile",File.mode.read)

?

Shanti

> Shanti Rao schrieb:
> 
>>Very cool, Jens!
>>
>>Does it have file system interaction, or do resources have to be Base64
>>encoded in JS source?
>>
>>Shanti
> 
> 
> At the moment it provides a module wrapping the C++ std::streambuf class
> and wrappers for constructors instanciating (subclasses of) this class.
> (File, Net) - additionaly the stream module always provides - stdout,
> stdin, stderr objects
> 
> The file module test:
> ejs.ModuleLoader.load("File");
> if (!File.mode.read)
> 	throw new Error("failed");
> stream=File.open("Makefile",File.mode.read);
> if ((s=stream.read(10))!="# Makefile")
> 	throw new Error("failed: \""+s+"\"");
> stream=File.read("Makefile");
> if ((s=stream.read(10))!="# Makefile")
> 	throw new Error("failed: \""+s+"\"");
> fname="delme-filetest-346x63hg3";
> stream=File.write(fname);
> stream.write("Hello World");
> stream.sync();
> stream=File.read(fname);
> s=stream.read(11);
> if (s!="Hello World")
> 	throw new Error("failed: \""+s+"\"");
> 
> Note:
> - doesn't support unicode yet
> - especially the net module is quite ugly
> 
> The examples encode the resources into the source for two reasons:
> The security modell of ejs is simplistic:
> - it has an untrusted mode (others would probably call it a restricted
> shell), which if entered doesn't allow much (no new network connections,
> no filesystem access, ...)
> - to have the example completely in one file
> 
> Greetings
> Jens

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