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Bug 349845

Summary:

Provide support for common libraries such as dojo in javascript editor

Product:

[ECD] Orion

Reporter:

Mike Fulton <fultonm>

Component:

JS Tools

Assignee:

Project Inbox <orion.client-inbox>

Status:

RESOLVED WONTFIX

QA Contact:

Severity:

enhancement

Priority:

CC:

mamacdon, Michael_Rennie, simon_kaegi, wolfgang.glas

Version:

0.2

Target Milestone:

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Hardware:

OS:

Linux

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Description	Flags
editor view when looking at 'clean' code that uses dojo	none

Description Mike Fulton

2011-06-20 11:51:01 EDT

With any luck, I am just using the editor wrong, but I have a simple javascript file that ends up with many, many errors in it when it is parsed because it doesn't know about the dojo entries that are 'required'. 

It would be nice if there was a way that I could specify other javascript files from a javascript file so that it could parse things correctly. I have lots of ideas - and happy to share them - but perhaps this is already on the 'being solved' list...

I will attach the source files shortly...

Comment 1 Mike Fulton

2011-06-20 11:53:45 EDT

Created attachment 198264 [details]
editor view when looking at 'clean' code that uses dojo

Comment 2 Mark Macdonald

2011-06-20 12:53:18 EDT

Add these 2 lines at the top of your file, and most of the errors should go away:

/*jslint browser:true*/
/*global dojo*/

Orion uses JSLint for JavaScript validation, and JSLint treats references to a global symbol as errors unless the symbol is declared explicitly. These 2 lines tell it to assume the "dojo" symbol along with common browser globals (document, Option, etc).

Comment 3 Wolfgang Glas

2014-01-19 03:54:14 EST

Is there any progress on AMD-based toolkits like dojo?

Comment 4 Mark Macdonald

2014-01-20 11:31:48 EST

(In reply to Wolfgang Glas from comment #3)
> Is there any progress on AMD-based toolkits like dojo?

We have nothing specifically for AMD yet. But we have made progress on some prerequisites: a JS validator that is easier to extend, and support for index files in the Tern.js format.

To deal with AMD, we'll likely also need a mechanism for users to provide their AMD loader config and their project->web path mapping. With those (and an index file providing the API type signatures), we should be able to extend the validator to statically check calls to library methods. This is unlikely to happen in the Orion 5.0 timeframe.

Comment 5 Wolfgang Glas

2014-01-20 14:43:57 EST

Hi Mark,

  Thanks for your reply. Support for AMD-modules was one of my big hopes with browser-based IDEs, but so far I have disappointed by all of them.

  Hopefully, eclipse orion as one of the most fast-moving frameworks will finally get there ;-)

  Best Regards,

    Wolfgang

Comment 6 John Arthorne

2015-05-05 14:50:47 EDT

Closing as part of a mass clean up of inactive bugs. Please reopen if this problem still occurs or is relevant to you. For more details see:

https://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/orion-dev/msg03444.html