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Call a JavaScript Function Returning an Object

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Demonstrates how to call a JavaScript function that returns an object.

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#include <CkStringBuilder.h>
#include <CkJs.h>
#include <CkJsonObject.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    //  This is the JavaScript function we'll call:

    //  function getSettings() {
    //      return {
    //          theme: "dark",
    //          notifications: true,
    //          version: 1.0
    //      };
    //  }

    CkStringBuilder sbScript;
    sbScript.Append("function getSettings() {");
    sbScript.Append("    return {");
    sbScript.Append("        theme: \"dark\",");
    sbScript.Append("        notifications: true,");
    sbScript.Append("        version: 1.0");
    sbScript.Append("    };");
    sbScript.Append("}");

    CkJs js;

    CkJsonObject result;
    result.put_EmitCompact(false);

    //  Call Eval to add the function to the context's global object
    success = js.Eval(sbScript,result);
    if (success == false) {
        //  Examine the result for an exception.
        std::cout << result.emit() << "\r\n";

        //  Also examine the LastErrorText.
        std::cout << js.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    //  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    //  Call the function getSettings()

    CkJsonObject funcCall;

    //  Create JSON specifying the function name and arguments
    //  The function has no arguments, so we only specify the name.

    //  {
    //    "name": "getSettings",
    //  }

    funcCall.UpdateString("name","getSettings");

    success = js.CallFunction(funcCall,result);
    if (success == false) {
        //  Examine the result for an exception.
        std::cout << result.emit() << "\r\n";

        //  Also examine the LastErrorText.
        std::cout << js.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    std::cout << result.emit() << "\r\n";

    //  Output:
    //  {
    //    "type": "object",
    //    "value": {
    //      "theme": "dark",
    //      "notifications": true,
    //      "version": 1
    //    }
    //  }

    //  Examine the object's members
    std::cout << "theme: " << result.stringOf("value.theme") << "\r\n";
    std::cout << "notifications: " << result.BoolOf("value.notifications") << "\r\n";
    std::cout << "version: " << result.IntOf("value.version") << "\r\n";

    //  Output:
    //  theme: dark
    //  notifications: True
    //  version: 1
    }