[mashup-dev] Annotating JavaScript to make JavaScript Web services Deployment easy

[Sanjiva Weerawarana]

Outstanding! :) So we can use this to annotate Javascript to help generate 
WSDL also right?

Cool!

Sanjiva.

Sameera Madushan Jayasoma wrote:
> Hi all,
> Deploying a JavaScript Web services can be as simple as just deploying 
> the JavaScript source file without  a services.xml. In this instance we 
> need a way to declare, what functions in the js source file, should be 
> exposed as Web methods. As an example, consider the following js source.
> 
> //@WebMethod
> function getCurrencyCode(ipAddress){
>    var code = getCountry(ipAddress);
>    ....
>    return currencyCode;
> }
> 
> function getCountry(ipAddress){
>    .......
>    return countryName;
> }
> 
> Only the function getCurrencyCode() is to be exposed as a WebMethod.
> 
> I have developed a small patch for Rhino which enable parsing the above 
> special comments and mark the function as a WebMethod. Then it is 
> possible to modify the JSDeployer written by Thilina in the following 
> manner to identify WebMethods.
> 
> Object[] ids = engine.getIds();
> for (int i = 0; i < ids.length; i++) {
>     String method = (String) ids[i];
>     Object object = engine.get(method, engine);
> -    if(object instanceof Function){
> +    if(object instanceof BaseFunction && 
> ((BaseFunction)object).isWebMethod()){
>         AxisOperation axisOp = new InOutAxisOperation(new QName(method));
>         axisOp.setMessageReceiver(new JavaScriptReceiver());
>         axisOp.setStyle(WSDLConstants.STYLE_DOC);
>         axisService.addOperation(axisOp);
>     }
> 
> }
> 
> This patch can be extended to support the required annotations defined 
> in JSR-181.
> Sameera
> 
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