Dumping content of included .js

11-08-2006

Is it possible to dump the source code from a .js file and save it to a
string? Something like:

<head>
<script language="JavaScript" src="http://www.abc.com/test.js"
type="text/javascript"></script>
<script>
function dumpScript() {
var scripts = document.getElementsByTagName('SCRIPT');
alert(scripts[0].source);
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<button onclick="dumpScript()">DUMP SCRIPT</button>
</body>

Thanks in advance!

11-09-2006

nick said the following on 11/8/2006 6:39 PM:
> Is it possible to dump the source code from a .js file and save it to a
> string? Something like:

No, the closest you could come would be to retrieve the file using an
XMLHTTPRequest Object (AJAX in buzz words) and then read the
responseText from the file.

Opera9 will let you read the script elements .text property:

document.scripts[0].text

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11-09-2006

Randy Webb wrote:
> nick said the following on 11/8/2006 6:39 PM:
> > Is it possible to dump the source code from a .js file and save it to a
> > string? Something like:
>
> No, the closest you could come would be to retrieve the file using an
> XMLHTTPRequest Object (AJAX in buzz words) and then read the
> responseText from the file.
>
> Opera9 will let you read the script elements .text property:
>
> document.scripts[0].text

Firefox has the ViewSourceWith extension (among others) - maybe less
convenient but provides a few more features

<URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/394/ >

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Rob

11-09-2006

> Firefox has the ViewSourceWith extension (among others) - maybe less
> convenient but provides a few more features

>
> <URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/394/ >
>
> --
> Rob

It's not a bug. The reason of that script you loaded has'nt run is it
hasn't loaded completely.
1. you can load the script in a script chunk before your main chunk;
2. use XMLHttp load script from xml files, than use global function
eval() to run it.
3. set a setTimeout() to wait for all the code loaded completely.

11-09-2006

Lich_Ray wrote:
> > Firefox has the ViewSourceWith extension (among others) - maybe less
> > convenient but provides a few more features

> >
> > <URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/394/ >
> >
> > --
> > Rob
>
> It's not a bug. The reason of that script you loaded has'nt run is it
> hasn't loaded completely.
> 1. you can load the script in a script chunk before your main chunk;
> 2. use XMLHttp load script from xml files, than use global function
> eval() to run it.
> 3. set a setTimeout() to wait for all the code loaded completely.

I think you completely missed the discussion. No one mentioned bug or
defect. There is no reason to suspect that the js file hasn't fully
loaded. There is no benefit to using eval() to execute the code since
the OP wants to view the source.

Using setTimeout() presumes that load latency is an issue, which it
isn't (see above). If it was, trying to view the source after some
guesstimate of how long the file might take to load is not a
particularly robust solution.

--
Rob

11-09-2006

Lich_Ray said the following on 11/8/2006 11:23 PM:
>> Firefox has the ViewSourceWith extension (among others) - maybe less
>> convenient but provides a few more features

>>
>> <URL: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/394/ >
>>
>> --
>> Rob
>
> It's not a bug. The reason of that script you loaded has'nt run is it
> hasn't loaded completely.

Who said anything about a bug and a script that hasn't loaded completely?

> 1. you can load the script in a script chunk before your main chunk;

Yoooohooooooo, thats what is being done!

> 2. use XMLHttp load script from xml files, than use global function
> eval() to run it.

That's a dumb way to do it.

> 3. set a setTimeout() to wait for all the code loaded completely.

That won't work.

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11-09-2006

Sorry, I haven't view your discussion completely. I Thought that he
want to run the script he had loaded.

11-09-2006

In message < om>, Wed, 8
Nov 2006 15:39:30, nick <> writes
>Is it possible to dump the source code from a .js file and save it to a
>string?

Don't know; but I'd use it if I could.

The source, or functional equivalent, of a function Fn [in a .js file],
can be obtained by Fn.toString() - therefore, if you can put the whole
needed content in the .js file as a function Fn, you can do what you
want, more or less.

The green-bordered boxes in
<URL:http://www.merlyn.demon.co.uk/js-nclds.htm> get their contents via
Fn.toString(), and the section "Code Display" shows how.

Query : how necessary is it for an include file to be named *.js ? I
find that to have mildly annoying consequences now that the OS
recognises .js as an executable extension.

It's a good idea to read the newsgroup and its FAQ. See below.

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11-09-2006

Dr J R Stockton wrote on 09 nov 2006 in comp.lang.javascript:

> Query : how necessary is it for an include file to be named *.js ? I
> find that to have mildly annoying consequences now that the OS
> recognises .js as an executable extension.
>

Not at all.

I often use:
<script type='text/javascript' src='myJs.asp'></script>

giving marvellous opportunities for
serverside preprocessing and data input.

just likeEven better than:
<img src='myPicture.asp'>

================

> 8 Nov 2006 15:39:30, nick <> writes
>>Is it possible to dump the source code from a .js file and save it to
>>a string?
>
> Don't know; but I'd use it if I could.

=================
<script type='text/javascript' src='klok.js'></script>

<script type='text/javascript'>
alert( document.getElementsByTagName('script')[1].text );
</script>
=====================

This fails if I change [1] to [0], giving an empty string:

alert( typeof document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0].text );

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11-09-2006

Dr J R Stockton said the following on 11/9/2006 6:48 AM:

<snip>

> Query : how necessary is it for an include file to be named *.js ?

Not necessary at all. You could name them *.myOwnScriptExtension as long
as the files on the server match the file name in your HTML including case.

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