How to talk to a Javascript function from SWT

Question

My HTML file has a javascript function xxx_return(), which will return a string value. Is there any way i can take this value from Java layer?.

I am using SWT shell to display this html. Does SWT carry any feature to get the return values of a script function?

edit:

My code is something like below: package test.html.simulation;

import org.eclipse.swt.SWT;
import org.eclipse.swt.SWTException;
import org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display;
import org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Shell;

public class BrowserExample{
public static void main(String[] args) 
{
  Display display = new Display();
  final Shell shell = new Shell(display);
  String html="";
  Object ob=null;
    shell.setText("Browser Example");
    shell.setSize(500, 350);

        final Browser browser = new Browser(shell, SWT.NONE);
        browser.setBounds(5, 75, 600, 400);

        browser.setUrl("http://localhost/test/tryxml.html");

        shell.open();
        //System.out.println(browser.getUrl());
        //try
        {
        html=(String)browser.evaluate("returnHTML();");
        }/*catch(SWTException e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());

        }*/
        System.out.println(html);

        while (!shell.isDisposed()) {
            if (!display.readAndDispatch())
                display.sleep();
            }

        display.dispose();


}

This code gives me an SWT Exception like Object expected:

Exception in thread "main" org.eclipse.swt.SWTException: Object expected
at org.eclipse.swt.browser.WebBrowser$EvaluateFunction.function(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.swt.browser.WebSite.Invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.swt.browser.WebSite$7.method6(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.ole.win32.COMObject.callback6(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.ole.win32.COM.VtblCall(Native Method)
at org.eclipse.swt.internal.ole.win32.IDispatch.Invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.swt.ole.win32.OleAutomation.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.swt.ole.win32.OleAutomation.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.swt.browser.IE.execute(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.swt.browser.WebBrowser.evaluate(Unknown Source)
at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser.evaluate(Unknown Source)
at test.html.simulation.BrowserExample.main(BrowserExample.java:29)

In the java script i have written a function in the script tag like:

<script>
function returnHTML()
  {
   var str=document.body.innerHTML;
   //alert(str);
   return str;
  }
</script>

Can anyone find the error in this?. I don't understand where it hits the error.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Use an SWT Browser object. Then you can simply use String result = (String)Browser.evaluate("xxx_return();").