Subj : Re: Rhino 1.5 script interrupt/terminate
To   : rhino <lblanchette@grandcentral.com>
From : Igor Bukanov <igor@icesoft.no>
Date : Wed Jan 22 2003 10:27 pm

rhino wrote:
> protected void observeInstructionCount(int instructionCount);
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> 
> So with optimization set to -1 and setInstructionObserverThreshold set this
> method does indeed get invoked during script execution. The question is how
> to terminate the script. Thread.currentThread().interrupt() doesn't do it.
> Another approach I've tried that works is to call reportError("some
> message") from the observeInstructionCount method. This does the trick
> generating an EvaluatorException and exiting the script Seems like a hack
> and there should be a more direct way to do this.
> 
> Comments?
> 
> 
You can throw an instance of Error subclass and put try/catch for it 
arround code that executes JavaScript. With EvaluatorException each 
finally block in a script will still be executed but with Error 
instances the script never get the control back.

Regards, Igor

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