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# Package jail
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import "github.com/status-im/status-go/geth/jail"
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Package jail implements "jailed" enviroment for executing arbitrary JavaScript
code using Otto JS interpreter (https://github.com/robertkrimen/otto).
Jail create multiple JailCells, one cell per status client chat. Each cell runs
own Otto virtual machine and lives forever, but that may change in the future.
+----------------------------------------------+
| Jail |
+----------------------------------------------+
+---------+ +---------+ +---------+ +---------+
| Cell | | Cell | | Cell | | Cell |
|ChatID 1 | |ChatID 2 | |ChatID 3 | |ChatID N |
|+-------+| |+-------+| |+-------+| |+-------+|
||Otto VM|| ||Otto VM|| ||Otto VM|| ||Otto VM||
|+-------+| |+-------+| |+-------+| |+-------+|
|| Loop || || Loop || || Loop || || Loop ||
++-------++ ++-------++ ++-------++ ++-------++
# Get and Set
(*JailCell).Get/Set functions provide transparent and concurrently safe wrappers
for Otto VM Get and Set functions respectively. See Otto documentation for usage
examples: https://godoc.org/github.com/robertkrimen/otto
# Call and Run
(*JailCell).Call/Run functions allows executing arbitrary JS in the cell.
They're also wrappers arount Otto VM functions of the same name. Run accepts raw
JS strings for execution, Call takes a JS function name (defined in VM) and
parameters.
# Timeouts and intervals support
Default Otto VM interpreter doesn't support setTimeout()/setInterval() JS
functions, because they're not part of ECMA-262 spec, but properties of the
window object in browser. We add support for them using
http://github.com/deoxxa/ottoext/timers and
http://github.com/deoxxa/ottoext/loop packages.
Each cell starts a new loop in a separate goroutine, registers functions for
setTimeout/setInterval calls and associate them with this loop. All JS code
executed as callback to setTimeout/setInterval will be handled by this loop.
For example, following code:
cell.Run(`setTimeout(function(){ value = "42" }, 2000);`)
will execute setTimeout and return immidiately, but callback function will be
executed after 2 seconds in the loop that was started upon current cell.
In order to capture response one may use following approach:
err = cell.Set("__captureResponse", func(val string) otto.Value {
fmt.Println("Captured response from callback:", val)
return otto.UndefinedValue()
})
cell.Run(`setTimeout(function(){ __captureResponse("OK") }, 2000);`)
# Fetch support
### TBD