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// API class
package org.mozilla.javascript;
public interface ConstProperties {
/**
* Sets a named const property in this object.
* <p>
* The property is specified by a string name
* as defined for <code>Scriptable.get</code>.
* <p>
* The possible values that may be passed in are as defined for
* <code>Scriptable.get</code>. A class that implements this method may choose
* to ignore calls to set certain properties, in which case those
* properties are effectively read-only.<p>
* For properties defined in a prototype chain,
* use <code>putProperty</code> in ScriptableObject. <p>
* Note that if a property <i>a</i> is defined in the prototype <i>p</i>
* of an object <i>o</i>, then evaluating <code>o.a = 23</code> will cause
* <code>set</code> to be called on the prototype <i>p</i> with
* <i>o</i> as the <i>start</i> parameter.
* To preserve JavaScript semantics, it is the Scriptable
* object's responsibility to modify <i>o</i>. <p>
* This design allows properties to be defined in prototypes and implemented
* in terms of getters and setters of Java values without consuming slots
* in each instance.<p>
* <p>
* The values that may be set are limited to the following:
* <UL>
* <LI>java.lang.Boolean objects</LI>
* <LI>java.lang.String objects</LI>
* <LI>java.lang.Number objects</LI>
* <LI>org.mozilla.javascript.Scriptable objects</LI>
* <LI>null</LI>
* <LI>The value returned by Context.getUndefinedValue()</LI>
* </UL><p>
* Arbitrary Java objects may be wrapped in a Scriptable by first calling
* <code>Context.toObject</code>. This allows the property of a JavaScript
* object to contain an arbitrary Java object as a value.<p>
* Note that <code>has</code> will be called by the runtime first before
* <code>set</code> is called to determine in which object the
* property is defined.
* Note that this method is not expected to traverse the prototype chain,
* which is different from the ECMA [[Put]] operation.
* @param name the name of the property
* @param start the object whose property is being set
* @param value value to set the property to
* @see org.mozilla.javascript.Scriptable#has(String, Scriptable)
* @see org.mozilla.javascript.Scriptable#get(String, Scriptable)
* @see org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptableObject#putProperty(Scriptable, String, Object)
* @see org.mozilla.javascript.Context#toObject(Object, Scriptable)
*/
public void putConst(String name, Scriptable start, Object value);
/**
* Reserves a definition spot for a const. This will set up a definition
* of the const property, but set its value to undefined. The semantics of
* the start parameter is the same as for putConst.
* @param name The name of the property.
* @param start The object whose property is being reserved.
*/
public void defineConst(String name, Scriptable start);
/**
* Returns true if the named property is defined as a const on this object.
* @param name
* @return true if the named property is defined as a const, false
* otherwise.
*/
public boolean isConst(String name);
}
