Injection

Injection is for Object. It allows us to add many properties and methods in any object.

Human {
}
someone = $Human;

Now, we have a set Human without any property or method, and an object of Human named someone.

So as a human, someone must has age. Let’s add for it.

someone.age = 20;
@mln_print(someone.age);

OK, done. Now 20 will be printed on terminal.

Let’s add a method for someone.

@printAge()
{
  @mln_print(this.age);
}

someone.print = printAge;
someone.print();

printAge is a function not object method, but it can be treated as an object method by injection. In a common function, this is nil. So if call printAge directly, interpreter will throw an error.

There is another way to inject properties and methods.

mln_setProperty

@mln_setProperty(object, name, value);

use mln_setProperty to inject property or method into an object. Its return value is the same as argument value.

Let’s add a name in someone.

ret = @mln_setProperty(someone, 'name', 'Jason');
@mln_print(ret);
@mln_print(someone.name);

The output of this piece of code is:

Jason
Jason

Let’s add a method in someone to print name.

@printName()
{
  @mln_print(this.name);
}
@mln_setProperty(someone, 'showName', printName);
someone.showName();

Since there is a function for setting property, there will be a function for getting property.

mln_getProperty

@mln_getProperty(object, name);

e.g.

@mln_print(@mln_getProperty(someone, 'name'));

The output is:

Jason

But if you try to access a nonexistent property by this function, interperter will throw an error.