659301 - GCLI commands should be able to have variant return types

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools Graveyard :: Graphic Commandline and Toolbar, defect, P3)

Description

[Joe Walker [:jwalker]]

It's valid in Javascript to do:

function(x) {
  if (x) return 42;
  else return "blah";
}

However GCLI forces return types to be interpreted in the same way because it defines a returnValue to specify the type.

Sometimes it is useful to provide the data in more than one format - see multi-part mime and the handling of clipboard data (although there could be better ways to achieve this).

Comment 1

[Joe Walker [:jwalker]]

Moving GCLI bugs to Developer Tools: Console. Filter on 'baked beans are off'.

Comment 2

[Joe Walker [:jwalker]]

Triage. Filter on PEGASUS.

Comment 3

[Joe Walker [:jwalker]]

New component triage. Filter on "Lobster Thermidor aux crevettes with a Mornay sauce"