JS Scriptengine in libplasma

[Marco Martin]

On Thursday 07 May 2009, Leonardo Franchi wrote:
> On Thursday 07 May 2009 11:48:48 Richard Dale wrote:
> > On Wed, May 6, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Leonardo Franchi <lfranchi at kde.org> 
wrote:
> > > hola folks,
> > >
> > > so i'm (finally) looking into adding scripted applet/dataengine support
> > > to amarok. it's really easy and transparent and all of that (yay
> > > plasma!) but we have a minor issue. we depend only on kdelibs, and the
> > > scriptengines are in kdebase/workspace.
> > >
> > > i understand that most of them have external deps, which may be
> > > undesirable. Indeed, we'll most likely restrict all applets/engines to
> > > being javascript, so as to not require the user to install random
> > > *-bindings package. But moving the javascript dataengine to the plasma
> > > in kdelibs would really be nice.
> >
> > I agree that the python and ruby script engine bindings have more
> > dependency problems than QScript bindings, and it wouldn't make sense
> > to put them in kdelibs.
> >
> > However, on the other hand, the python and ruby ones are not really
> > equivalent to the QScript bindings in kdebase as they pretty much
> > cover the entire C++ Plasma Applet api, whereas the QScript one covers
> > a simpler minimal api. At one time, in the kde playground module,
> > there was work going on into developing some more complete JavaScript
> > bindings based on the QtJambi parser/code generator. So I wonder if
> > anyone is intending to develop the more complex bindings further? Have
> > we had enough feedback yet to know whether or not the simpler bindings
> > are sufficient for what most people want to do?
>
> Ah, I wasn't aware that the JS bindings aren't "full" bindings like the
> Ruby or Python ones. In amarok 2 we decided to limit all scripts two
> javascript/qtscript in order to a) avoid the mess of having scripts require
> certain *-qt4/kde4 bindings, which lead to users not being able to install
> them, and b) with the qtscriptgenerator bindings we get "for free" a full
> set of qt bindings. We then expose an additional qtscript API for amarok.
>
> We will most  likely limit scripted amarok applets to qtscript as well.
> What sort of limitations do the JS bindings have?
you have access only to methods decalred as Q_PROPERTY or Q_INVOKABLE 
all the plasma widgets export as properties most of their functionality but 
not nativeWidget() (so it's not accessible the full api of the underlying 
qwidget)

>
> leo
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