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

[Melanie]

Hi,

if you want to support it in LSL, you can make a function that 
returns a LSL strided list of name/value pairs. That can then be 
taken apart using LSLs atrocious list handling functions.

However, there will be no objection from me against enhancing LSL 
with better list handling, or arrays, or hashtables, or anything, 
really, as long as these functions don't make existing scripts 
incompatible. I'm perfectly fine with adding anything useful.

This don't even need to be blockable, I am only interested in a 
"disable" for functions that could be used to grief or DOS. So, by 
all means, let's do an array member reference syntax in LSL and a 
type for it, I know people will love it.

Melanie

Sean Dague wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> 
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