JSObjectMakeError automatically populates the "message" field, and possibly other fields I don't know about. This seems to be the most robust way to create an exception object.
Thanks to Brian Barnes again for the tip on JSObjectMakeError.
The current implementation only returns an error string. But this is insufficient for debugging (what file and line number did it fail at?).
As documented here:
http://parmanoir.com/Taming_JavascriptCore_within_and_without_WebView
converting the JSValueRef of string to an JSObjectRef (via JSValueToObject) will trigger JSCore into filling the "sourceURL" and "line" properties into the object so they can be inspected by the caller.
Additionally, JavaScriptCore has a "message" property which contains the message string. JSCore doesn't seem to be filling this in for us automatically, unlike "sourceURL" and "line". So this patch also fills that property in too.
Thanks to Brian Barnes for the detailed information about "sourceURL", "line", and "message".
Below is an example (derived from Brian Barnes's information) on how you typically use/extract these exception details.
void script_exception_to_string(JSContextRef js_context,JSValueRef exception_value_ref,char* return_error_string, int return_error_string_max_length)
{
JSObjectRef exception_object;
JSValueRef value_ref;
JSStringRef jsstring_property_name = NULL;
JSValueRef temporary_exception = NULL;
JSStringRef js_return_string = NULL;
size_t bytes_needed;
char* c_result_string = NULL;
exception_object = JSValueToObject(js_context, exception_value_ref, NULL);
// source and line numbers
strcpy(return_error_string,"[");
jsstring_property_name = JSStringCreateWithUTF8CString("sourceURL");
value_ref = JSObjectGetProperty(js_context, exception_object, jsstring_property_name, &temporary_exception);
JSStringRelease(jsstring_property_name);
js_return_string = JSValueToStringCopy(js_context, value_ref, NULL);
bytes_needed = JSStringGetMaximumUTF8CStringSize(js_return_string);
c_result_string = (char*)calloc(bytes_needed, sizeof(char));
JSStringGetUTF8CString(js_return_string, c_result_string, bytes_needed);
SDL_Log("c_result_string: %s\n", c_result_string);
JSStringRelease(js_return_string);
strncat(return_error_string, c_result_string, return_error_string_max_length-1);
free(c_result_string);
strncat(return_error_string, ":", return_error_string_max_length-1);
jsstring_property_name = JSStringCreateWithUTF8CString("line");
value_ref = JSObjectGetProperty(js_context, exception_object, jsstring_property_name, &temporary_exception);
JSStringRelease(jsstring_property_name);
js_return_string = JSValueToStringCopy(js_context, value_ref, NULL);
bytes_needed = JSStringGetMaximumUTF8CStringSize(js_return_string);
c_result_string = (char*)calloc(bytes_needed, sizeof(char));
JSStringGetUTF8CString(js_return_string, c_result_string, bytes_needed);
SDL_Log("c_result_string: %s\n", c_result_string);
JSStringRelease(js_return_string);
strncat(return_error_string, c_result_string, return_error_string_max_length-1);
//SDL_Log("c_result_string: %s\n", c_result_string);
free(c_result_string);
strncat(return_error_string, "]", return_error_string_max_length-1);
/* get message */
jsstring_property_name = JSStringCreateWithUTF8CString("message");
value_ref = JSObjectGetProperty(js_context, exception_object, jsstring_property_name, &temporary_exception);
JSStringRelease(jsstring_property_name);
if(NULL == value_ref)
{
strncat(return_error_string, "Unknown Error", return_error_string_max_length-1);
}
else
{
js_return_string = JSValueToStringCopy(js_context, value_ref, NULL);
bytes_needed = JSStringGetMaximumUTF8CStringSize(js_return_string);
c_result_string = (char*)calloc(bytes_needed, sizeof(char));
JSStringGetUTF8CString(js_return_string, c_result_string, bytes_needed);
SDL_Log("c_result_string: %s\n", c_result_string);
JSStringRelease(js_return_string);
strncat(return_error_string, c_result_string, return_error_string_max_length-1);
//SDL_Log("c_result_string: %s\n", c_result_string);
free(c_result_string);
}
}
To use:
if(js_exception)
{
char return_error_string[256];
script_exception_to_string(js_context, js_exception, return_error_string, 256);
SDL_Log("Compile error is %s", return_error_string);
}
It is common in C to accept NULL to functions for pointer parameters.
extern void DoSomething(struct Foo* foo);
...
DoSomething(NULL);
Thus, JavaScript null should be allowed:
module.DoSomething(null);
But the current ConvertPtr definition accepts only objects. This modifies it to allow null.
It is common in C to accept NULL to functions for pointer parameters.
extern void DoSomething(struct Foo* foo);
...
DoSomething(NULL);
Thus, JavaScript null should be allowed:
module.DoSomething(null);
But the current ConvertPtr definition accepts only objects. This modifies it to allow null.
