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Related to #4186. Some notable changes: - The term 'Error' now strictly refers to native Error objects defined in the ECMA standard, which are ordinary objects. All other uses of 'error' or 'error reference' where the term refers to a thrown value is now called 'exception'. - Simplified the naming scheme of many String API functions. These functions will now also take an 'encoding' argument to specify the desired encoding in which to operate. - Removed the substring-copy-to-buffer functions. These functions behaved awkwardly, as they use character index to specify the start/end positions, and were mostly used incorrectly with byte offsets instead. The functionality can still be replicated with other functions if necessary. - String-to-buffer functions will no longer fail if the buffer is not sufficiently large, the string will instead be cropped. - Fixed the usage of the '_sz' prefix in many API functions. The term 'sz' means zero-terminated string in hungarian notation, this was used incorrectly in many cases. - Renamed most of the public API functions to have shorter, more on-point names, rather than the often too long descriptive names. Functions are now also grouped by the type of value they operate on, where this makes sense. JerryScript-DCO-1.0-Signed-off-by: Dániel Bátyai dbatyai@inf.u-szeged.hu
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Handle Scope
jerryx_handle_scope
Summary It is often necessary to make the lifespan of handles shorter than the lifespan of a native method. Even though the native code could only use the most recent handle, all of the associated objects would also be kept alive since they all share the same scope.
To handle this case, JerryScript HandleScope extension provides the ability to establish a new 'scope' to which newly created handles will be associated. Once those handles are no longer required, the scope can be 'closed' and any handles associated with the scope are invalidated. The methods available to open/close scopes are jerryx_open_handle_scope and jerryx_close_handle_scope.
JerryScript only supports a single nested hierarchy of scopes. There is only one active scope at any time, and all new handles will be associated with that scope while it is active. Scopes must be closed in the reverse order from which they are opened. In addition, all scopes created within a native method must be closed before returning from that method.
Example
#include "jerryscript.h"
#include "jerryscript-ext/handle-scope.h"
static jerry_value_t
create_object (void)
{
jerry_value_t obj = jerry_object ();
return obj;
} /* create_object */
static void
test_handle_scope_val (void)
{
jerryx_handle_scope scope;
jerryx_open_handle_scope (&scope);
jerry_value_t obj = jerryx_create_handle (create_object ());
jerryx_close_handle_scope (scope);
// now obj has been released
} /* test_handle_scope_val */
int
main (void)
{
jerry_init (JERRY_INIT_EMPTY);
test_handle_scope_val ();
jerry_heap_gc (JERRY_GC_PRESSURE_LOW);
jerry_cleanup ();
} /* main */
jerryx_escapable_handle_scope
Summary
It is necessary in common cases that a handle has to be promote to outer scope and prevent from been garbage collected. To handle this case, a escapable handle scope has been proposed from which one object can be promoted to the outer scope. The method available to escape an object from been release at current scope is jerryx_escape_handle.
Example
#include "jerryscript.h"
#include "jerryscript-ext/handle-scope.h"
static jerry_value_t
create_object (void)
{
jerryx_escapable_handle_scope scope;
jerryx_open_escapable_handle_scope (&scope);
jerry_value_t obj = jerryx_create_handle (jerry_object ());
jerry_value_t escaped_obj;
jerryx_escape_handle(scope, obj, &escaped_obj);
jerryx_close_handle_scope (scope);
// escaped_obj has now been escaped to outer scope, thus not released at this point
return escaped_obj;
} /* create_object */
static void
test_handle_scope_val (void)
{
jerryx_handle_scope scope;
jerryx_open_handle_scope (&scope);
jerry_value_t obj = create_object ();
jerryx_close_handle_scope (scope);
// now obj has been released
} /* test_handle_scope_val */
int
main (void)
{
jerry_init (JERRY_INIT_EMPTY);
test_handle_scope_val ();
jerry_heap_gc (JERRY_GC_PRESSURE_LOW);
jerry_cleanup ();
} /* main */
See also
Pre-allocated list of handle scopes and handles
To prevent trapping into system calls frequently, a pre-allocated dedicated list mechanism has been introduced to the implementation of JerryX handle scope.
To change the size of pre-allocation list, use build definition JERRYX_HANDLE_PRELIST_SIZE and JERRYX_SCOPE_PRELIST_SIZE to alter the default value of 20.