support for Node.js

[Bozella]

Hi,
Does EA have a plugin that supports Javascript, or Node.js programming?
Thanks.

[Helmut Ortmann]

Hi,

you can write and debug scripts which are written in
- VBScript
- JScript
- JavaScript.

You can't write EA addins in VBScript, JScript. JavaScript because you can't create a DLL conforming to EA Addin requirements with these languages.

Helmut

[qwerty]

Maybe he's after code engineering rather than scripting?

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[Bozella]

What I would like to be able to do, from my use case scenarios, is generate the accompanying test code into javascipt, since I'm using the Node.js framework.

[qwerty]

The code gen uses a proprietary scripting language. I guess it should be possible to adapt the java code gen for your needs. The other way around is by far more complicated. Now EA has a way to describe your target language with some BNF-like notation. (Quite intriguing for me since I once studied compiler construction but I haven't used it so far.)

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[Bozella]

I guess I'll take that as a "No, it can't be done".

[qwerty]

If you just want to generate code from the model you can do it (takes only a couple of days). But the whole way back is probably not worth it. There's one guy from Sweden who is actually in that. I have not seen anyone else discussing that matter here.

q.