481152 - Open Context class for extension

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Rhino Graveyard :: Core, defect)

Description

[Marc]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.6) Gecko/2009020911 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy) Firefox/3.0.6
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A lot of Context's class methods are final without any clear reason. Removing these final declarations and making some other internal utilities protected would facilitate extension, for instance for following use case which is surely common: we (in HtmlUnit) want to inspect the JavaScript code (as string) before execution. We can do this without problem when we call Context's methods by ourself, but not when eval is called from the executed JS script. eval calls Context.compileString(String, Evaluator, ErrorReporter, String, int, Object) and therefore we could easily inject our behaviour here if we had the possibility to overwrite this method.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Closing. Bug management is now done here:
https://github.com/mozilla/rhino