Yes, I meant to tell the list sooner, but right after I fixed the Jenkins
build, I got pulled into something urgent. Apologies!
- Josh
On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 1:10 AM, Christofer Dutz <christofer.d...@c-ware.de>
wrote:
> Hi Josh,
>
> Well how about anyone making changes to the dependencies drop a note here
> in the list?
> But I migrated your changes to the maven branch and it's building nicely
> :-)
>
> Chris
>
> ________________________________________
> Von: Josh Tynjala <joshtynj...@gmail.com>
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 21. April 2016 23:01
> An: dev@flex.apache.org
> Betreff: [FalconJX] More Node.js stuff
>
> Hey folks,
>
> I've been working on improving Node.js support for the next release of
> FlexJS. Sorry for forcing you to wipe your builds of flex-falcon after I
> added new externs downloads!
>
> In FlexJS 0.6, you could use require() to load Node modules, but you'd have
> untyped objects:
>
> var http:Object = require("http");
>
> It's just enough to make things work, but you probably wouldn't want to do
> a whole project that way.
>
> Starting today, if a class in an externs SWC has [JSModule] metadata, the
> compiler will automatically require the module in the generated JS.
>
> package {
> [JSModule]
> public class http {}
> }
>
> package http
> {
> [JSModule(name="http")]
> public class Server {}
> }
>
> If you use http or http.Server in your ActionScript code, the compiler will
> know to require it in the generated JavaScript.
>
> In the process, I fixed several issues in externc. I also added a new
> named-module command line argument to externc that lets you specify exactly
> which packages should include [JSModule] metadata. I updated the Node.js
> externs, and it works great!
>
> Here's a little example:
>
> package
> {
> public class HelloNode
> {
> public function HelloNode()
> {
> var newPath:String =
> path.normalize("./sub/../test/./whatever.txt");
> console.log(newPath);
> }
> }
> }
>
> The path class is required automatically by the compiler. It's in the
> top-level package, so it doesn't need to be imported. Classes in
> sub-packages are imported normally in ActionScript. The console class is
> used in this example too, but because it considered a global, it doesn't
> have [JSModule] metadata, so it gets treated normally.
>
> - Josh
>
