Feature: Arbitrary sources for module source text #97

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1. GeoffreyBooth

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   on May 19, 2018
2. Jamesernator commented on May 21, 2018

   

   Jamesernator

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   This can be partially solved by the vm.Module constructor and linking and evaluating the module yourself. Obviously it's not that elegant so I wouldn't call it a done solution, but at the very least the use case is accomplishable.

   Perhaps the --loader flag thing would also enable this use case, but I'm not too familiar with it.
3. xtuc commented on May 21, 2018

   

   xtuc

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   Sorry I don't understand this use case, could you please provide a few examples?

   Are the following example in this use case?

   import tty from "unix:///dev/tty0"
   import file from "file://tmp/foo"
   import something from "tcp://localhost"
4. GeoffreyBooth commented on May 22, 2018

   

   GeoffreyBooth

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   Pinging @ceejbot as this was their use case.
5. ljharb commented on May 22, 2018

   

   ljharb

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   I would expect that there'd be a way to do both of the following:

   1. programmatically create a module, perhaps with VM.module, from an arbitrary string, and define it to be importable at some path
   2. define a custom loader that can handle custom URL protocols, or custom paths, that can load source text in real time.

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6. GeoffreyBooth

   closed this as completedon Jun 21, 2018