[Development] Question about QtDeclarative Internals

[Fabian Kosmale]

Hi,

there is certainly no straightforward way from QV4::Value to ExecutableCompilationUnit, especially considering that the Value can be anything, from a primitive like bool or undefined to basically arbitrary objects managed on the engine's heap.

Could you expand a bit more how exactly you envision registerModule to work? What is your QJSValue supposed to contain:
- A string with the JS code of the module?
- An URL?
- A C++ object which ought to provide methods that can then be used in the JS engine?

Regards,
Fabian
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Von: Development <development-bounces at qt-project.org> im Auftrag von Alex Shaw <alex.shaw.as at gmail.com>
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 21. April 2021 16:18
An: development at qt-project.org
Betreff: [Development] Question about QtDeclarative Internals

Hello,

In QtDeclarative, can a QV4::ReturnedValue or a QV4::Value be converted into an ExecutableCompilationUnit?

I'm trying to work on a patch for QJSEngine to allow importing modules from C++ (similar to Node.js: import fs from "fs")
The planned method is something along the lines of:
void QJSEngine::registerModule(const QString &moduleName, const QJSValue &value)

I can see that behind the scenes, loadModule compiles a URL to an ExecutableCompilationUnit, then saves it to a list of modules for future lookup.
I thought the easiest way to do what I need is to convert a QJSValue to an internal QV4::Value, and from there into an ExecutableCompilationUnit.
Is there any way of doing that?

Thanks.