Parmanoir

When using WebKit with Cocoa, you can expose any ObjC object to Javascript. But there's a catch : you need to specify which keys and selectors are allowed to be called via isKeyExcludedFromWebScript and isSelectorExcludedFromWebScript. But what if we want to expose everything ? Just add these methods to NSobject with a category :

@implementation NSObject(ExposeEverything)

+ (BOOL)isSelectorExcludedFromWebScript:(SEL)selector {
	return NO;
}
+ (BOOL)isKeyExcludedFromWebScript:(const char *)property {
	return NO;
}

@end

Now you can expose a dummy object that returns NSApp, and call in your JS code myExposedObject.NSApp().keyWindow().setHasShadow_(false). Pretty neat :), save for the trailing underscore.

Why expose everything ? I've tried RubyCocoa for Cocoa development and have had strange bugs (crashing when adding a comment), plus I don't really like Ruby as a language. It doesn't handle the increment operator ++, multiline comments, and has a strange syntax for blocks — compared to Javascript who uses the unterse function (arg1, arg2) everywhere for functions and lambdas. And Javascript's (scope | inheritance) model, where a (function/lambda | object) inherit its parent (scope | prototype), is just so elegant. I can say I grok Javascript where everything is pretty simple and powerful, even if it's limited, but Ruby just confuses me. I wonder how much development can be done in JS instead of ObjC or RubyCocoa … I'll be exploring.