894705 - js::IsInRequest not accessible outside of gecko

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: JavaScript Engine, defect)

Description

[Stephen Li]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:22.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/22.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130618035212

Steps to reproduce:

We are trying to use this call in our code outside of gecko to read settings changes:
JS::Rooted<JS::Value> val(cx);
We see these undefined linker errors for js::IsInRequest(JSContext *cx).

It seems this API is not exported outside of gecko and hence causes the linker error.


Actual results:

Linker error


Expected results:

Should isInRequest be made accessible outside of gecko ?

Comment 1

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

Bobby, do you know who look into this?

Comment 2

[Bobby Holley (:bholley)]

Hm, are you linking a debug build of your binary against a non-debug version of Gecko?

js::IsInRequest is declared here:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/js/public/RootingAPI.h#517

and defined here:
http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/js/src/jsfriendapi.cpp#1131

So if Gecko is compiled in non-debug mode, the function won't exist.

Comment 3

[Bobby Holley (:bholley)]

Note that any extensions depending on C++ JSAPI invocation will soon break, because we're going to stop exporting the symbols.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/yC8Bg91ic5k

Comment 4

[Benjamin Bouvier [:bbouvier] (inactive)]

Mass-closing JS bugs for which the platform is Gonk (Firefox OS), since Firefox OS is gone. Feel free to re-open if still valid.