On Jan 6, 11:54 pm, Rapha <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have been looking at doing the same thing as Thomas. Would it make
> sense to modify the compiler so that if a javascript function does not
> contain a return statement, the corresponding Java method gets a
> return type of void?

Yes, this is a good idea. I do think we'd have to make the change
under a jsc flag so we don't break current users who are depending on
the current return type.

--N

>
> Raphael
>
> On Dec 7 2008, 2:27 pm, Norris Boyd <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 5, 6:10 am, Thomas Kappler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > On Dec 5, 4:22 am, Norris Boyd <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > On Dec 4, 9:26 am, Thomas Kappler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > > > > Hi,
>
> > > > > I'm extending a Java class via the -extends argument to the debugger.
>
> > > > Did you mean compiler instead of debugger?
>
> > > Yes, sorry!
>
> > > > > Is there a way to let the compiled method be of type void?
>
> > > > You could define an interface
>
> > > > interface Foo {
> > > >   public void myFunc();
> > > > }
>
> > > > and then compile the JavaScript with -implements Foo. I haven't tried
> > > > it, but I think it will force Rhino to match the void return type in
> > > > the interface.
>
> > > That works, thanks. It's a bit cumbersome for my use case, but not too
> > > bad.
>
> > > I'm trying to write JUnit (Java) test cases in Javascript, importing
> > > junit.framework.Assert and compiling with -extends
> > > junit.framework.TestCase. So I have to declare every testFoo() method
> > > in a corresponding interface, because the JUnit test runner picks up
> > > only methods conforming to "public void testFoo".
>
> > > Thomas
>
> > That is awkward to have to declare an additional interface like that.
>
> > Have you looked at org.mozilla.javascript.tests.JsTests or
> > org.mozilla.javascript.tests.DocTestsTest? Those are a couple other
> > ways to write JUnit tests in JavaScript. 
> > Seehttp://blog.norrisboyd.com/2008/03/doctest-in-rhino.html.
>
> > --N
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