Config option for predefined modules

[gamtiq]

Hello John,

It would be useful to have some configuration option that allows describing several predefined modules (i.e. named modules/objects that have created before curl loading). So that instead of

...
<script>
    curl = {baseUrl: ...};
</script>
<script src="path/to/curl.js"></script>
<script>
    define("m1", obj1);
    define("m2", function() { return modDef; });
    define("m1/m2", obj1.obj2);
</script>
...

it could be possible to write something like the following

...
<script>
    curl = {
        predefined: {
            m1: obj1,
            m2: function() { return modDef; },
            "m1/m2": obj1.obj2
        },
        baseUrl: ...
    };
</script>
<script src="path/to/curl.js"></script>
...

Best regards, Denis

[unscriptable]

Interesting iea. Where do these modules come from? Can you help me understand some use cases?

This might work (depending on your use case):

<script src="path/to/curl.js"></script>
<script>
    curl({ baseUrl: '...', etc: '...' });
    define("m1", obj1);
    define("m2", function() { return modDef; });
    define("m1/m2", obj1.obj2);
</script>

[gamtiq]

John,

Actually your code is similar to my snippet 1. I use curl along with my own framework. The framework’s loader loads some framework files before curl. Those files contain "plain js" (not AMD) organized by namespaces. As a result I have an objects hierarchy. Some objects from this hierarchy I would like to use as modules in an application for convenience purposes. To achieve this now I apply code that is alike to the snippet 1. The proposed config option would allow optimizing a little in such situation.

[unscriptable]

Heh, this may be all that's needed in the config routine:

var predefined, name = cfg['predefined']
for (name in predefined) _define(name, predefined[name]);

[gamtiq]

It seems the needed code should be a bit more complex. ;-)

var name, predefined;
if (predefined = cfg['predefined']) {
    for (name in predefined) {
        _define(name, predefined[name]);
    }
}