[webkit-dev] Passing data structures through postMessage()

[Oliver Hunt]

No, it is more restrictive now than it was 6 months ago -- I was  
attempting to implement this back then and the ambiguity in handling  
the more excitingly complex objects (now simply "return null") made it  
substantially more complex, that is the only reason the implementation  
is not currently matching the object clone semantic.  JSON was never  
sufficient for the purpose of postMessage, and is also relatively  
trivially breakable.

--Oliver

On Sep 10, 2009, at 5:29 PM, Drew Wilson wrote:

> Good point - re-reviewing the Structured Clone spec, I see all kinds  
> of crazy stuff is cloneable now, so string/JSON may not be a  
> particularly good basis. It seems that we'll need to support File  
> access from Workers, since you can clone/send those objects over  
> from page context.
>
> I had expected that having a common serialization format would be  
> useful, but I agree - it probably is better to just send opaque  
> objects around, which might enable WebKit to send actual cloned  
> object instances without requiring any serialization, while chromium  
> can do the serialization itself when sending the data cross-process.
>
> -atw