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Demonstrates console output using Chilkat JavaScript.

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C
#include <C_CkStringBuilder.h>
#include <C_CkJs.h>
#include <C_CkJsonObject.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkStringBuilder sbScript;
    HCkJs js;
    HCkJsonObject result;
    HCkStringBuilder sbOut;

    success = FALSE;

    // This example demonstrates using the built-in console object.
    // The Javascript run in this example is shown below.

    // Load the JavaScript from a file.
    sbScript = CkStringBuilder_Create();
    success = CkStringBuilder_LoadFile(sbScript,"qa_data/js_tests/test_console.js","utf-8");
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkStringBuilder_lastErrorText(sbScript));
        CkStringBuilder_Dispose(sbScript);
        return;
    }

    js = CkJs_Create();
    result = CkJsonObject_Create();

    // Run the JavaScript
    // Results (not console output) go to result.
    // Note: Eval returns the completion value of the script. This is generally the value of the last evaluated expression.
    // In this case, the last evaluated expression is console.log which does not calculate a value. Therefore, it returns undefined.
    success = CkJs_Eval(js,sbScript,result);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkStringBuilder_lastErrorText(sbScript));
        CkStringBuilder_Dispose(sbScript);
        CkJs_Dispose(js);
        CkJsonObject_Dispose(result);
        return;
    }

    // We can look at the result, which is "undefined", which is normal and expected.
    printf("%s\n",CkJsonObject_emit(result));
    // The result JSON is: {"type":"undefined","value":"undefined"}

    // The console output is retrieved by calling ConsoleOutputSb
    sbOut = CkStringBuilder_Create();
    CkJs_ConsoleOutputSb(js,sbOut);
    printf("%s\n",CkStringBuilder_getAsString(sbOut));


    CkStringBuilder_Dispose(sbScript);
    CkJs_Dispose(js);
    CkJsonObject_Dispose(result);
    CkStringBuilder_Dispose(sbOut);

    }