JavaScript-1.5 Reference

JS_DecompileScript Function

Summary

Creates the source code of a script from a script's compiled form.

Syntax

JSString * JS_DecompileScript(JSContext *cx, JSScript *script,
    const char *name, uintN indent);
NameTypeDescription
cxJSContext *Pointer to a JS context.
scriptJSScript *Script to decompile.
nameconst char *Name to assign to the decompiled script.
indentuintNNumber of spaces to use for indented code.

Description

JS_DecompileScript creates the source code version of a script from a script's compiled form, script. name is the name you assign to the text version of the script; it is used only for debugging the source code version produced by this function.

If successful, JS_DecompileScript returns a string containing the source code of the script. Otherwise, it returns NULL. The source code generated by this function is accurate but lacks function declarations. In order to make it suitable for recompiling, you must edit the code to add the function declarations, or call JS_DecompileFunction on a compiled version of each function to generate the function declarations.

See Also

Groups [ Function ]
Documents [ LXR ID Search ]
Entries [ JS_CompileFile | JS_CompileScript | JS_DecompileFunction | JS_DestroyScript | JS_EvaluateScript | JS_ExecuteScript ]

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