If I am not too far off, that should be easy to implement the
getProperty() method to return a Java object, and the getJsonProperty()
method to convert this Java object into a JSON string.
very straightforward. The JSON object would consist of
a) a primary associative array consisting of ONE property
name and its associated property value. This property
name is the name of the primary getProperty() parameter.
b) property values consisting of one of four data types:
numeric, string, 0-based sequential array, associative array
(JavaScript doesn't distinguish among numeric data types.)
That's all one needs. I wrote a little ditty toJSON() in ModelManager
(I think) that converts Java arrays.toString() to JavaScript arrays.
So that's done.
That said, I don't think that EVERY return needs to be a JSON string.
For example, there is no need to package a file name or file contents
or file header in a JSON string. But that's a minor detail, I think.
In what I did, I simply made anything having "Info" in the property
name a JSON return; anything else was just a simple string.
However, I think that there may be another piece. I think that we may need
to have a mechanism to have a 'reference' to an internal object without
having the object itself. This fits in with my concern about having nested
"Objects". But this is a good step as an extension of Bob's work.
This would be interesting. I do think it might be asking for
cross-platform trouble if JavaScript is dipping into actual Jmol
applet objects. We could experiment. Anyone know of examples of this
-- where JavaScript gets a Java object reference and works with it?
Yeiks! My intuition says, "don't go there." I'm certainly interested
in learning how all this works.
Bob
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