Documentation?

[Crisfole]

Is there any documentation in place for this?

[Taritsyn]

Hello, Christopher!

Originally this library was developed for use in the Bundle Transformer project, therefore as there is no documentation. I recommend to you watch the code of unit tests.

Creation of documentation is planned.

[Crisfole]

Sweet, thanks.

[AllNamesRTaken]

Since no unit tests show any passing of objects from .net to chakra, I assume that doesn't work. Am I correct? What I am looking for is to access .net objects from JS code.

[Taritsyn]

Hello, AllNamesRTaken!

You are right, passing of objects from .NET does not work. In documentation lists 5 supported types.

Implementation of such functionality is not a trivial task. When I will have free time, then I'll take care of this problem.

[kunalspathak]

@AllNamesRTaken , could you share some examples on how you envision the functionality of accessing .net objects from JS code? Is it something like this?

FooBar a = new FooBar("hello"); // FooBar sets property named 'prop' which is of type string
string code = @"console.log(a.prop)"; 
RunScript(code); // should output 'hello'.

I assume if this is supported then next step would be support calling object methods as well.

[Taritsyn]

@kunalspathak , this refers to the functionality of similar functionality from the ClearScript:

using System;
using Microsoft.ClearScript;
using Microsoft.ClearScript.V8;

// create a script engine
using (var engine = new V8ScriptEngine())
{
    …
    // expose a host object
    engine.AddHostObject("random", new Random());
    engine.Execute("Console.WriteLine(random.NextDouble())");
    …
}

[kunalspathak]

Thanks Andrey. Whenever I get chance, I will try to design on how this can be done.

[Taritsyn]

@kunalspathak , as a rule, I do not accept pull requests.

[kunalspathak]

Sure. This is very tempting problem to solve though, so I will work on the fork. Thanks @Taritsyn

[Taritsyn]

Actually, I was going to do it myself.