Subject:
JavaAdapter return type conversion
Date:
Wed, 19 Apr 2000 12:12:47 +0100
From:
Matthias Radestock <rade@logee.com>
Organization:
Logee
To:
norris@netscape.com
CC:
mccabe@netscape.com, beard@netscape.com, rogerl@netscape.com
Dear Rhino team,
When returning an array from a scripted Java object (i.e. a JS object
that implements a Java interface), no type conversion is performed, ie.
a NativeArray is returned instead of a Java array. Example:
Java:
interface Foo {
public String[] boo();
}
JS:
FooI = {
boo: function() { return ["Boo"];}
}
myFoo = new Packages.Foo(FooI);
myFoo.boo(); //==> breaks with a ClassCastException
Looking at the JavaAdapter code, there is no code for array conversion.
This is particularly bad because precisely such a conversion *does*
happen when calling a Java method from JS. So we end up with a
discrepancy.
See attachment for a patch to fix this and little test program. The
patch works by calling the coerceType function on NativeJavaObject,
which is the function responsible for doing the conversion when calling
from JS to Java. I've simplified the code so that this function gets
called for all non-primitive return type, not just arrays. There are
probably more efficient solutions but I'm not a Java bytecode hacker.
Matthias
PS: I didn't open a bug for this because I wasn't sure whether you guys
would agree that this is indeed a problem ;)
public interface JSReturnTest {
public boolean returnBoolean();
public char returnChar();
public int returnInt();
public String returnString();
public org.mozilla.javascript.Scriptable returnScriptable();
public Object returnObject();
public boolean[] returnBooleanA();
public char[] returnCharA();
public int[] returnIntA();
public String[] returnStringA();
public org.mozilla.javascript.Scriptable[] returnScriptableA();
public Object[] returnObjectA();
public Object[][] returnObjectAA();
}
Index: JavaAdapter.java
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RCS file: /cvsroot/mozilla/js/rhino/org/mozilla/javascript/JavaAdapter.java,v
retrieving revision 1.21
diff -r1.21 JavaAdapter.java
54c54,59
<
---
>
> public static Object convertResult(Object result, String classname)
> throws ClassNotFoundException {
> return NativeJavaObject.coerceType(Class.forName(classname),
> result);
> }
467,474c472,474
< } else if (retType.equals(String.class)) {
< cfw.add(ByteCode.INVOKESTATIC,
< "org/mozilla/javascript/Context",
< "toString", "(Ljava/lang/Object;)",
< "Ljava/lang/String;");
< cfw.add(ByteCode.ARETURN);
< } else if (retType.equals(Scriptable.class)) {
< cfw.add(ByteCode.ALOAD_0); // load 'this' to find scope from
---
> } else {
> String retTypeStr = retType.getName();
> cfw.addLoadConstant(retTypeStr);
476,477c476,477
< "org/mozilla/javascript/Context",
< "toObject",
---
> "org/mozilla/javascript/JavaAdapter",
> "convertResult",
479,500c479,480
< "Lorg/mozilla/javascript/Scriptable;)",
< "Lorg/mozilla/javascript/Scriptable;");
< cfw.add(ByteCode.ARETURN);
< } else {
< // If it is a wrapped type, cast to Wrapper and call unwrap()
< cfw.add(ByteCode.DUP);
< cfw.add(ByteCode.INSTANCEOF, "org/mozilla/javascript/Wrapper");
< // skip 3 for IFEQ, 3 for CHECKCAST, and 5 for INVOKEINTERFACE
< cfw.add(ByteCode.IFEQ, 11);
< cfw.add(ByteCode.CHECKCAST, "org/mozilla/javascript/Wrapper");
< cfw.add(ByteCode.INVOKEINTERFACE,
< "org/mozilla/javascript/Wrapper",
< "unwrap", "()", "Ljava/lang/Object;");
<
< // If Undefined, return null
< cfw.add(ByteCode.DUP);
< cfw.add(ByteCode.INSTANCEOF, "org/mozilla/javascript/Undefined");
< // skip 3 for IFEQ, 1 for ACONST_NULL, 1 for ARETURN
< cfw.add(ByteCode.IFEQ, 5);
< cfw.add(ByteCode.ACONST_NULL);
< cfw.add(ByteCode.ARETURN);
<
---
> "Ljava/lang/String;)",
> "Ljava/lang/Object;");
502,503c482
< String retTypeStr = retType.getName().replace('.', '/');
< cfw.add(ByteCode.CHECKCAST, retTypeStr);
---
> cfw.add(ByteCode.CHECKCAST, retTypeStr.replace('.', '/'));
testpatch.js
Name:
testpatch.js
Type:
JavaScript Program (application/x-javascript)
Encoding:
7bit
add m prefix to base and offset label members
interpreter.cpp,h
dual license
wrap interpret in a Context class
add RETURN_VOID case
js2.cpp
update to use context class
remove #if 0 code that'll probably never be used anyway.
jstypes.h
add defineProperty/function to JSObject
vmtypes.h
regerated opcode classes:
added RETURN_VOID, removed LOAD/SAVE_VAR
reverted bacl to the smaller print function (thanks to RETURN_VOID)
fixed branch printing issue
inherit print() from super if possible
tools/gencode.pl
generate smaller print functions again
don't generate print function if superclass can take care of it.
contextClassloader problem in ScriptRuntime.java
Date:
Tue, 11 Apr 2000 09:45:36 -0400
From:
"Howard Lin" <howard@softcom.com>
To:
"Norris Boyd" <norris@netscape.com>
CC:
"Andrew Wason" <aw@softcom.com>
Hi, Norris, we are trying to create a Java class in JavaScript. When security manager is on, everything works fine. But when security
manager is off, we got an error saying the "... is not defined". The problem is that in ScriptRuntime.java, when security is on,
getContextClassLoader is null due to SecurityException and Class.forName is used to find the class, which works fine. When security
is off, ContextClassLoaderMethod is invoked to find the class. Since we use a separate thread to load third party jar files,
ContextClassLoaderMethod will throw a ClassNotFound exception.
To illustrate this problem, I wrote a simple applet, evaluating a simple js file in its paint method, which is running on a separate thread.
When security is off, I got the following:
ReferenceError: "Global" is not defined.
at org.mozilla.javascript.NativeGlobal.constructError(NativeGlobal.java:
494)
at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.name(ScriptRuntime.java, Compile
d Code)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Interpreter.interpret(Interpreter.java, Compil
ed Code)
at org.mozilla.javascript.InterpretedScript.call(InterpretedScript.java:
67)
at org.mozilla.javascript.InterpretedScript.exec(InterpretedScript.java:
54)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Context.evaluateReader(Context.java:739)
at test.evaluate(test.java:26)
at test.paint(test.java:16)
at sun.awt.windows.WComponentPeer.handleEvent(WComponentPeer.java:117)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:2447)
at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:1035)
at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:2307)
at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:287)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEvent(EventDispatchThread.java:10
1)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:92)
at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:83)
When security is on, it runs fine. Or if the code moved to init method, it works fine regardless of security. We are using JDK 1.2.2.
Howard
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