Basic framework for a modern jsc CLI

• Component: JavaScriptCore
• Status: RESOLVED FIXED

[Mark Hahnenberg]

The most basic components of a modern jsc command line interface consist of the following:

- A simple REPL to enter commands and receive results
- The ability to define a module (which consists of various internal methods as well as a set of externally visible methods)
- The ability to load other modules at runtime
- The ability to interact with the underlying platform to perform various "privileged" functions (e.g. opening files, printing to the stdout, etc.)

The basic architecture will look something like the following:
- If the tool is run in REPL mode (i.e. no command line arguments), it will start the REPL on the main thread and start a secondary thread with a run loop to handle various inputs from the REPL thread.
- If the tool is given a script to run, it will evaluate that script (and any scripts that it might transitively load) within the run loop on the main thread.

[Mark Hahnenberg]

Created attachment 221896 [details]
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[Oliver Hunt]

Comment on attachment 221896 [details]
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the existing jsc prompt supports multiline input which this does not appear to :(

[Mark Hahnenberg]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (From update of attachment 221896 [details])
> the existing jsc prompt supports multiline input which this does not appear to :(

I'll file a bug for it. This will probably never replace the old jsc since other platforms can't compile Objective-C.

[Mark Hahnenberg]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > (From update of attachment 221896 [details] [details])
> > the existing jsc prompt supports multiline input which this does not appear to :(
> 
> I'll file a bug for it. This will probably never replace the old jsc since other platforms can't compile Objective-C.

I sort of skipped a sentence there. I meant to also say that this will probably not replace jsc on our own platforms for some time until the new jsc-cli reaches feature parity with the old jsc. In addition, the old jsc will probably stick around indefinitely anyways due to the absence of Objective-C on other platforms.

[Geoffrey Garen]

Comment on attachment 221896 [details]
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rs=me

[Mark Hahnenberg]

(In reply to comment #2)
> (From update of attachment 221896 [details])
> the existing jsc prompt supports multiline input which this does not appear to :(

I filed bug 127484 to track this.

[WebKit Commit Bot]

Comment on attachment 221896 [details]
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Clearing flags on attachment: 221896

Committed r162612: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/162612>

[WebKit Commit Bot]

All reviewed patches have been landed.  Closing bug.

[WebKit Commit Bot]

Re-opened since this is blocked by bug 127488

[Mark Hahnenberg]

Had to roll it back out because I forgot that EWS doesn't test changes to the Tools directory, and thus this patch broke several platforms.

[Mark Hahnenberg]

Committed r163991: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/163991>