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1 There are two separate wrappers for V8 here. One is called FXJS, and
2 it is used by the non-XFA code. The other is called FXJSE, and it is
3 used only by the XFA code. Additionally FXJSE may request services
4 from FXJS to bridge the two.
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6 Both the FXJS and FXJSE binding code needs to be replaced by something
7 saner, perhaps Gin or perhaps some IDL. See
8 https://bugs.chromium.org/p/pdfium/issues/detail?id=716
9 for progress on the issue.
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11 FXJS binds objects by sticking a pointer to a CFXJS_PerObjectData in
12 the V8 object's internal slot. FXJSE binds objects by sticking a
13 pointer to either an actual v8 function object or a CFXJSE_HostObject
14 in the V8 object's internal slot, depending upon whether the object
15 represents (in some notion) a "class" or an "instance". Also, V8 objects
16 bound in one library may unexpectedly arrive at the other given a script
17 that's trying to mess with us.
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19 To distinguish these cases, we use two internal slots for all bound
20 objects, regardless of the FXJS/FXJSE distinction. Slot 0 is the
21 tag and contains either:
22 kPerObjectDataTag for FXJS objects, or
23 g_FXJSETagString for FXJSE Host objects, or
24 One of 4 specific FXJSE_CLASS_DESCRIPTOR globals for FXJSE classes:
25 GlobalClassDescriptor
26 NormalClassDescriptor
27 VariablesClassDescriptor
28 formcalc_fm2js_descriptor
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30 Slot 1's contents are determined by these tags:
31 kPerObjectDataTag means to expect a CFXJS_PerObjectData.
32 g_FXJSETagString means to expect a CFXJSE_HostObject.
33 A FXJSE_CLASS_DESCRIPTOR pointer means to expect a v8 function.
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