From: hatespyware@... (anon luker)
Date: 2004-04-29T08:34:02+09:00
Subject: rre: ActiveScriptRuby and Internet Explorer : WIN32OLE ole_methods limited?

"Jerome Hauss" <jhauss@gfi.fr> wrote in message
news:<150401c42d17$4eb0e4d0$032f10ac@WJHAUSS2>...

>With Internet Explorer and ActiveScriptRuby, the ole_methods for an
>Microsoft.XMLDOM object, does not show for instance the "load" method.

"Does not show" is not very descriptive.


>And there's a security error when I try the load.

What does "security error" mean?


>Why should the load method be dangerous ?

I don't know.


>I would like to use RubyScript instead of JavaScript, but I cannot do
>the same... Some solutions ?

Solutions to what?  Please post some code.


>(and calling WIN32OLE ole_get_methods or ole_func_methods stops
>executing a RubyScript defined method...?)

That sounds possible - multithreading in Ruby is counterintuitive.  I'm
not going to speculate further without seeing some code.


>PS. Is it a bad idea to marshal and unmarshal objects sent between the
>navigator and the server ?

What do you have in mind?

fyi, this works for me:

$ cat ./test.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'win32ole'
p xd = WIN32OLE.new('Microsoft.XMLDOM')
puts '_'*40
p xd.ole_obj_help
puts '_'*40
p xd.ole_methods
puts '_'*40
p xd.load('C:\Program Files\tv\xmltv-0.5.24-win32\guide.xml')
puts '_'*40
p xd.readyState
puts '_'*40
puts xd.lastChild.lastChild.text.inspect

$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i386-mswin32]

$ ./test.rb 
#<WIN32OLE:0x100f5470>                                      
_______________________________________________________________________ 
IXMLDOMDocument2                                                        
_______________________________________________________________________ 
[QueryInterface, AddRef, Release, GetTypeInfoCount, GetTypeInfo,        
GetIDsOfNames, Invoke, nodeName, nodeValue, nodeValue, nodeType,        
parentNode, childNodes, firstChild, lastChild, previousSibling,         
nextSibling, attributes, insertBefore, replaceChild, removeChild,       
appendChild, hasChildNodes, ownerDocument, cloneNode, nodeTypeString,   
text, text, specified, definition, nodeTypedValue, nodeTypedValue,      
dataType, dataType, xml, transformNode, selectNodes, selectSingleNode,  
parsed, namespaceURI, prefix, baseName, transformNodeToObject,          
doctype, implementation, documentElement, createElement,                
createDocumentFragment, createTextNode, createComment,                  
createCDATASection, createProcessingInstruction, createAttribute,       
createEntityReference, getElementsByTagName, createNode, nodeFromID,    
load, 
readyState, parseError, url, async, async, abort, loadXML, save,  
validateOnParse, validateOnParse, resolveExternals, resolveExternals,   
preserveWhiteSpace, preserveWhiteSpace, onreadystatechange,             
ondataavailable, ontransformnode, namespaces, schemas, validate,        
setProperty, getProperty, GetTypeInfoCount, GetTypeInfo, GetIDsOfNames, 
Invoke]                                                                 
_______________________________________________________________________ 
true                                                                    
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