[Opensim-dev] Place for osFoo functions that only work with certain languages

[Sean Dague]

I've got some script support for JSON request parsing from one of our
folks, but it returns a hashtable, so is really only suitable for C# in
it's current form.  As we all know, LSL doesn't do complex data
structures in any real way.

I occurs to me that we'll get more of these things over time, and am
curious about how to integrate this properly.

Some options seem to be:

1) have it only work on some languages (possibly a way to mark things as
such).

2) Support some kind of opaque typing so we could do:

obj foo = osFoo(...);
string val = osFooGet(foo, "mykey");

That would change LSL, but let us to support something like this.

3) Force the function to keep it's own global state so that:

string token = osFoo();
string val = osFooGet(token, "mykey");
osFooReap(token);


3 seems to be the biggest pain, so I would vote against that.  1 is
easy, but I'm not sure what others think about it.

Opinions welcomed.  I'd love to get these bits in as I think they are
useful to lots of people.

	-Sean

-- 
Sean Dague / Neas Bade
sdague at gmail.com
http://dague.net


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