What Brendan said.
The nsXMLHttpRequest is a good example to follow. You may even find
other useful examples in the SOAP demos floating around (or ask
{rayw,aruner}@netscape.com)
-Gagan
Brendan Eich wrote:
> Leonid Romanov wrote:
>
>> Hi!
>> I need to implement additional "standard" JavaScript class for making
>> http
>> requests. SpiderMonkey will run as part of embedded browser and I prefer
>> to implement it inside libmozjs.so, without messing with XPConnect. For
>> class's users request will look as synchronous, however user can specify
>> timeout for it, so implementation should be asynchronous.
>>
>> My plan is following: implement full blown StreamListener, then,
>> inside my
>> JavaScript class method implementation:
>>
>> eventQService->PushThreadEventQueue(getter_AddRefs(mEventQueue)); ...
>> mChannel->AsyncOpen(mMyListener, nsnull); ...
>> while (mRunEventLoop) {
>> mEventQueue->ProcessPendingEvents();
>> // timeout stuff using PR_IntervalNow()
>> }
>> ...
>> eventQService->PopThreadEventQueue(mEventQueue);
>>
>> The big question is: will such aproach work at all? If so, are there
>> any pitfalls which I should be aware of? For example, should I
>> process all pending events from current event queue before pushing my
>> own? Any useful sources from Mozilla's tree to look (so far I'm only
>> found nsXMLHttpRequest.cpp)? Docs?
>>
>> P.S. I'm not too skilful with threads :(
>>
> I don't think you should be avoiding XPConnect, or hacking "inside
> libmozjs.so". Especially if you're new to threads.
>
> Why not use XPCOM properly, and from the right library in the embedded
> browser?
>
> Anyway, I'm setting followup-to: m.netlib for advice from the Necko
> gurus.
>
> /be
>
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance. Leonid.
>>
>
>
