41497 - Need public way to turn a (jlong) nsIDOMDocument * into org.w3c.dom.Document

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: Java APIs for DOM, defect, P3)

Description

[edburns]

Webclient already has an instance of nsIDOMDocument.  The easiest way for 
webclient to use JavaDOM would be making public the method

    private static native Node getNodeByHandle(long p);

Then webclient could simply call getNodeByHandle(domDocumentLong) to get the 
Document.  This depends on 41492.

In the meantime, I have worked around the fact that getNodeByHandle is private 
by calling it from native code.  I would rather not do that.

Comment 1

[Akhil Arora]

seems like a temporary hack and a security hole, there should be a better way of
doing this.

Comment 2

[Denis Sharypov]

It is not safe to pass native c++ pointers to java side
especially on unix platforms. Also for the security reasons
getNodeByHandle(long p) was designed to be called only from
native code, it won't be exposed to java side.