If you want to do it in all native c# without any 3rd party or "component" external dependencies use a CodeDomProvider with a tiny JScript bootstrap, like this:
private static readonly MethodInfo eval = CodeDomProvider
.CreateProvider("JScript")
.CompileAssemblyFromSource(new CompilerParameters(), "package e{class v{public static function e(e:String):Object{return eval(e);}}}")
.CompiledAssembly
.GetType("e.v")
.GetMethod("e");
private static object JsEval(string jscript)
{
try
{
return eval.Invoke(null, new[] { jscript });
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
return ex;
}
}
that creates a JsEval(string) method that you can use anywhere in your code to "eval" a string as JavaScript (well JScript)... So calling:
MessageBox.Show("" + JsEval("2 + 2")); // 4
MessageBox.Show("" + JsEval("(function(){ return 3+7; })();")); // 10
MessageBox.Show("" + JsEval("function yay(a) { return a + 1; } yay(2);")); // 3
depending on your use you may not want to instantiate these members statically. if you want to manipulate complex objects you will need create a wrapper to reflectively extract data (or you could cast as the appropriate JScript counterpart, but I've never tried this as you'd have to include the JScript assemblies).
here is an example of a wrapper class that does everything JavaScript will let you do natively, adding anymore high level functionality would probably be cumbersome enough so that you'd be better off either extracting the members into a dictionary / hash table OR alternatively serializing and deserializing on the other end
private class JsObjectWrapper : IEnumerable
{
public readonly object jsObject;
private static PropertyInfo itemAccessor = null;
private static MethodInfo getEnumerator = null;
public JsObjectWrapper(object jsObject)
{
this.jsObject = jsObject;
if (itemAccessor == null)
{
itemAccessor = jsObject.GetType().GetProperty("Item", new Type[] { typeof(string) });
}
if (getEnumerator == null)
{
getEnumerator = jsObject.GetType().GetInterface("IEnumerable").GetMethod("GetEnumerator");
}
}
public object this[string key]
{
get { return itemAccessor.GetValue(jsObject, new object[] { key }); }
set { itemAccessor.SetValue(jsObject, value, new object[] { key }); }
}
IEnumerator IEnumerable.GetEnumerator()
{
return (IEnumerator)getEnumerator.Invoke(jsObject, null);
}
}
you can see this in action by doing this:
var jsObj = JsEval("var x = { a:7, b:9 };");
var csObj = new JsObjectWrapper(jsObj);
MessageBox.Show("a: " + csObj["a"]); // a: 7
MessageBox.Show("b: " + csObj["b"]); // b: 9
csObj["yay!"] = 69;
foreach (string key in csObj)
{
MessageBox.Show("" + key + ": " + csObj[key]); // "key": "value"
}
i personally have used code similar to this to great effect at one point or another and can vouch for it's availability and runnability inside a server environment.. I hope this helps -ck
