I presented a project (idea, no code yet) that needs that feature, too. Game server (as a service?) that accepts logic code from game tenants. Another project needs something like this (it's like https://github.com/ryanb/ruby-warrior/ )
So, thanks for the question, and for any answer! Angel "Java" Lopez On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 1:52 PM, Kevin O <[email protected]> wrote: > We are working on an app where we want to give users the ability to upload > JS scripts to process their data in our app. > > Insane, right? :) Well we are going to do it in a sane way or not do it > at all. We understand the risks. > > I want to take raw JS input from the user, generate an AST, > cleanse/evaluate/mangle it, then "re-compile" to minified JS *only* when > we know is safe. If the script is doing unsafe things, we'll return > compiler errors. Our compiler needs to be able to limit the JS globals to a > short "whitelist". i.e. stuff like eval() is not available within the > script. > > Scripts will be run in our node app using vm.runInNewContext(). We will > pass in a context object with the data that the user will be processing > with their script. > > Has anyone done something like this? I have a small bit of code started > using uglify but am wondering if there are some other projects or design > ideas I can pluck from before getting to deep into the weeds. > > Thanks > > Kevin > > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
