Re: JSObject.call(), closures, JS anonymous function references etc

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer,comp.lang.javascript
Date:
Sun, 15 Mar 2009 20:47:45 -0400
Message-ID:
<49bda1ae$0$90271$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
Richard Maher wrote:

Using netscape.javascript.JSObject (LiveConnect) I want/need to pass a
Function Reference to my Java Applet so that it can either call that
directly, or pass it to a static JavaScript function that will then redirect
the call to the appropriate anonymous function that formed a closure.

Please forgive me if the terminology is not strictly correct, but I hope you
can still understand what I'm trying to do.

I thought the second argument to JSObject.call could be an array of Strings
*or* Objects but trying to get a JavaScript object (or a reference/pointer
to it) to survive the Java Applet membrane (without some sort of
serialize/deserialize) is proving difficult. Am I missing something obvious?
Does anyone have a small example I can look at?

Maybe it's as easy as the first argument to JSObject.call can be a
JavaScript VARiable? I'll give it a go. . .

// This is called from the Applet
    function jsMethod(javaInt, javaFunc) {
      alert('Integer ' + javaInt);
      alert('JavaFunc ' + javaFunc.toString());
      javaFunc();
      return;
    }


It would have been slightly easier if you had told us what was happening
when this code was executed.

But I assume you have a problem with the type of javaFunc.

Maybe there are some tricky way of doing this the right way.

But I know you can do it with eval. Pass a string from JS to Java,
pass a string from Java to JS and then call it using eval.

Not nice, but it will work.

Arne

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