Related to #4186.
Some notable changes:
- The term 'Error' now strictly refers to native Error objects defined in
the ECMA standard, which are ordinary objects. All other uses of
'error' or 'error reference' where the term refers to a thrown value is
now called 'exception'.
- Simplified the naming scheme of many String API functions. These functions
will now also take an 'encoding' argument to specify the desired
encoding in which to operate.
- Removed the substring-copy-to-buffer functions. These functions
behaved awkwardly, as they use character index to specify the
start/end positions, and were mostly used incorrectly with byte
offsets instead. The functionality can still be replicated with
other functions if necessary.
- String-to-buffer functions will no longer fail if the buffer is not
sufficiently large, the string will instead be cropped.
- Fixed the usage of the '_sz' prefix in many API functions. The term
'sz' means zero-terminated string in hungarian notation, this was
used incorrectly in many cases.
- Renamed most of the public API functions to have shorter, more on-point
names, rather than the often too long descriptive names. Functions are now
also grouped by the type of value they operate on, where this makes
sense.
JerryScript-DCO-1.0-Signed-off-by: Dániel Bátyai dbatyai@inf.u-szeged.hu
Their length (size) is known at compile time. Therefore `sizeof`
is more efficient for them.
JerryScript-DCO-1.0-Signed-off-by: Akos Kiss akiss@inf.u-szeged.hu
Add a notification for JerryScript API users that the jerry-api.h
will be removed in the future and should use the jerryscript.h
header instead.
Also update the examples in the docs and the targets where
the jerry-api.h is used.
JerryScript-DCO-1.0-Signed-off-by: Peter Gal pgal.u-szeged@partner.samsung.com
Since the project is now hosted at the JS Foundation we can move to unified copyright notices for the project.
Starting with this commit all future contributions to the project should only carry the following copyright notice (except for third-party code which requires copyright information to be preserved):
"Copyright JS Foundation and other contributors, http://js.foundation" (without the quotes)
This avoids cluttering the codebase with contributor-specific copyright notices which have a higher maintenance overhead and tend to get outdated quickly. Also dropping the year from the copyright notices helps to avoid yearly code changes just to update the copyright notices.
Note that each contributor still retains full copyright ownership of his/her contributions and the respective authorship is tracked very accurately via Git.
JerryScript-DCO-1.0-Signed-off-by: Tilmann Scheller t.scheller@samsung.com
Dániel Bátyai