On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 01:51:34PM -0500, John J. Foerch wrote:
> Conceptually, it looks like a composition of functions, where a value of
> null from any function in the chain returns null for the whole
> composition. Instead of naming the arguments 'from' and 'to', the idea of
> composing a transformation could be made explicit with a type signature:
>
> define_client_redirect(name, transform ...);
>
> Where all transforms get composed together. Each can be a regexp or a
> function; the final result must be a string url.
>
> We would probably never need all that power, but maybe this way of looking
> at it helps to explain the confusing type signature, and could guide the
> documentation of the module.
That kind of implementation looks something like this:
function define_client_redirect (name) {
var transforms = Array.prototype.slice.call(arguments, 1);
function transform (location) {
for (var i = 0, n = transforms.length; i < n; ++i) {
if (transforms[i] instanceof RegExp) {
if (location instanceof Ci.nsIURI)
var lstr = location.spec;
else
lstr = location;
location = transforms[i].exec(lstr);
} else
location = transforms[i](location);
if (location == null)
return null;
}
return location;
}
redirects[name] = transform;
}
That's my kind of fun :)
--
John Foerch
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