384396 - Deprecating JSObject** objp parameter in JS_GetMethodById and JS_GetMethod

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Igor Bukanov]

[This is a spin-off of bug 349326 comment 19]

With the bug 373082 fixed, JS_GetMethodById and JS_GetMethod always set on return their objp parameter to the passed object since E4X method lookup no longer affects |this| argument passed to the method. Since even in es4 this fundamental property continues to hold, I suggest either to deprecate these API and provide alternative methods or at least to allow to pass NULL as objp arguments there.

Comment 1

[Brendan Eich [:brendan]]

These are new enough APIs that we could change them, I think. It's not what we have done historically, but it will help loosen up the API a bit for ActionMonkey (Tamarin integration), which will probably change a few (not too many) other (and likely more recent or never as frozen) APIs.

/be

Comment 2

[André Bargull [:anba]]

JS_GetMethodById and JS_GetMethod was removed in http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/7f6765e6e3be