Implement jsdICompilationUnit
John J Barton <[email protected]> Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:29:58 -0800
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For Firefox 3.7 I want to push to get an extension to jsd that would dramatically improve Firebug and improve Firefox's support for dynamic Javascript. I am looking for more feedback on the approach I am taking: Bug 449464 - Implement jsdICompilationUnit to extend jsd to include information on the compilation unit structure. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=449464 The bug has more justification and details. Broadly the API attempts to mimic the current jsdIDebuggerService style by adding a new callback hook, jsdICompilationHook and a new enumerate call, enumerateCompiledScripts(). This makes the API narrow but idiosyncratic (a good match to the current API ;-). The implementation is "lightly salted": a few lines need to be added in a lot of places. Every place JS can be compiled needs a call to the hook and the hook-setting code needs to propagate up through the jsd layer cake to the JS interface. Algorithmically the jsengine builds a simple list of jsdIScripts threaded through JSDScript with the head in JSDContext. If the compilation hook is taken, the list can be copied out via enumerateCompiledScripts(), else it is not useful. I would appreciate input. (I tried to set the followup here to mozilla.dev.apps.js-debugger, but I know that group is not widely followed so I've added platform and js-engine). jjb