a question about what I can do with load()...

[BURRIS Thomas]

As usual, I have a much higher-level question than usually appears on this list! Please direct me elsewhere if there's a more appropriate forum....

As far as I can tell, in order to use Netbeans JS debugger with JS code that uses Nashorn I have to use "load" in the eval of my JS. Load apparently does something to preserve the distinct lines in the JS, which enables the setting of breakpoints, etc. Simply using engine.eval(string-of-code) or engine.eval(Reader) means you can't use the debugger.

However, I am writing a platform on which I enable developers to write their JS code and, like for node.js, etc., I wrap their code invisibly to make it into a module. That is, I add something along the lines of

(function() { var exports = {};                      <<<< this
<user's code>
})();                                                                        <<<< and this

to "modularize" the user's code. So if I want to both "wrap" my user's code and enable them to use the Netbeans debugger, I'm stuck because I either a) read the JS from its file as a string, wrap it, and then load it; or b) load it as a file (in which case I don't get the chance to "wrap" it). Here are the two cases:
a)
                String code = getMyJavascriptAsAString("c/somedir/some.js");
                code = wrapMyJsCode(code);
engine.eval("load({ script: '" + code + "', name: \"some.js\"})");

ERROR: Problem loading: somedir/some.js': javax.script.ScriptException: <eval>:1:55 Missing close quote
load({ script: 'var x = {};
                           ^ in <eval> at line number 1 at column number 13

FAILS because the JS code consists of multiple lines and java doesn't support multi-line strings.

b)
Loading from a file directly

                engine.eval("load('c:/somedir/some.js');");

which works in a debugger, but doesn't enable me to "wrap" user's code.

Aside from writing out temporary files, does somebody have a better suggestion? Is it possible to intercept the handling of "load(<filePath>)" so that I can inject stuff into the user's code to "modularize" it?

I hope I'm clear.

thanks

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