Hi,

if I correctly understand you, it happens only in the Rhino shell, is
that right? I don't know the shell at all, but I can imagine that it is
an other manifestation of bug 374918 as the shell surely initializes a
default scope.

Cheers,
Marc.
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tlrobinson wrote:
> If I set a property on a primitive object's prototype, it doesn't seem
> to be propagated to instanced of that primitive, but *not* in the
> Rhino shell, only if I create a scope with initStandardObjects. Also,
> built in objects that aren't primitives, but actual Objects (like
> Array and Date) work correctly, it's only String, Number, and Boolean.
> 
> Here's a test case. As you can see, only Array and Date objects
> correctly inherit the "isa" property from their prototypes, even
> though it clearly *is* set on the prototype:
> 
>     print("== Shell scope ==");
> 
>     String.prototype.isa = "ok!";
>     Array.prototype.isa = "ok!";
>     Number.prototype.isa = "ok!";
>     Boolean.prototype.isa = "ok!";
>     Date.prototype.isa = "ok!";
> 
>     var string = "string";
>     print("string=" + string + ", " + string.isa + " (" +
> String.prototype.isa + ")");
>     var array = [1,2,3];
>     print("array=" + array + ", " + array.isa + " (" +
> Array.prototype.isa + ")");
>     var number = 42;
>     print("number=" + number + ", " + number.isa + " (" +
> Number.prototype.isa + ")");
>     var bool = true;
>     print("bool=" + bool + ", " + bool.isa + " (" +
> Boolean.prototype.isa + ")");
>     var date = new Date();
>     print("date=" + date + ", " + date.isa + " (" + Date.prototype.isa
> + ")");
> 
>     cx = Packages.org.mozilla.javascript.Context.enter();
>     scope = cx.initStandardObjects();
>     cx.evaluateString(scope, '\
>         print = function(obj)
> { java.lang.System.out.println(String(obj)); }; \
>         print("== Standard scope =="); \
>         String.prototype.isa = "ok!"; \
>         Array.prototype.isa = "ok!"; \
>         Number.prototype.isa = "ok!"; \
>         Boolean.prototype.isa = "ok!"; \
>         Date.prototype.isa = "ok!"; \
>         var string = "string"; \
>         print("string=" + string + ", " + string.isa + " (" +
> String.prototype.isa + ")"); \
>         var array = [1,2,3]; \
>         print("array=" + array + ", " + array.isa + " (" +
> Array.prototype.isa + ")"); \
>         var number = 42; \
>         print("number=" + number + ", " + number.isa + " (" +
> Number.prototype.isa + ")"); \
>         var bool = true; \
>         print("bool=" + bool + ", " + bool.isa + " (" +
> Boolean.prototype.isa + ")"); \
>         var date = new Date(); \
>         print("date=" + date + ", " + date.isa + " (" +
> Date.prototype.isa + ")");',
>     "<cmd>", 1, null);
> 
> Any idea what's going on? Is this a manifestation of this bug:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374918
> 
> We use this technique in Objective-J (http://cappuccino.org) to "toll-
> free bridge" the built in JS objects to their Objective-J
> counterparts, so it would be great if it worked in Rhino (already does
> work, only in the shell)
> 
> Thanks.


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