Tech/LxEngine/Features & Tasks/Scripting Language Plug-ins

From Athile

Status

Unstarted.

Overview

Add an abstraction layer between the LxEngine core and the scripting language implementation so that scripting languages can be supported via a plug-in per language. Classes, methods, properties, and free functions would be exposed to the abstract script management via generic interfaces: the plug-ins would then map these to implementation specific wrappers.

• Javascript
• Python
• .NET

Design Notes

• Create a language-neutral description of the classes and functions (effectively an internal virtual machine run-time environment)
• Add them to a stack of contexts
• Run a script at any time with a given active context stack

class ScriptClass
{
    name;
    methods[];
    properties[];
 
    slotInvokeMethod(name, args);
    slotInvokeProperty(name);
}
 
class ScriptContext
{
    addFunction(name, std::function<T>);
    addClass(ScriptClass);
};