Re: [heycam/webidl] Specify open dictionaries. (#180)

jyasskin commented on this pull request.



> @@ -7529,6 +7564,82 @@ iterable |iterable| and an iterator getter
 </div>
 
 
+<h4 id="es-open-dictionary">Open dictionaries — dictionary&lt;[|K|,] |V|&gt;</h4>
+
+IDL {{dictionary}}&lt;|K|, |V|&gt; values are represented by
+ECMAScript <emu-val>Object</emu-val> values.
+
+<div algorithm="convert object to open dictionary" id="es-to-open-dictionary">
+    An ECMAScript value |O| is [=converted to an IDL value|converted=] to an IDL <code>{{dictionary}}<|K|, |V|></code> value as follows:
+
+    1.  If [=Type=](|O|) is not <emu-val>Object</emu-val>,
+        <a lt="es throw">throw a <emu-val>TypeError</emu-val></a>.
+    1.  Let |result| be a new empty instance of <code>{{dictionary}}<|K|, |V|></code>.
+    1.  Let |entries| be [=EnumerableOwnProperties=](|O|, "key+value").

I've switched to EnumerableOwnProperties("key"), which returns a List.

> @@ -7529,6 +7570,82 @@ iterable |iterable| and an iterator getter
 </div>
 
 
+<h4 id="es-open-dictionary">Open dictionaries — dictionary&lt;[|K|,] |V|&gt;</h4>
+
+IDL {{dictionary}}&lt;|K|, |V|&gt; values are represented by
+ECMAScript <emu-val>Object</emu-val> values.
+
+<div algorithm="convert object to open dictionary" id="es-to-open-dictionary">
+    An ECMAScript value |O| is [=converted to an IDL value|converted=] to an IDL <code>{{dictionary}}<|K|, |V|></code> value as follows:
+
+    1.  If [=Type=](|O|) is not <emu-val>Object</emu-val>,
+        <a lt="es throw">throw a <emu-val>TypeError</emu-val></a>.
+    1.  Let |result| be a new empty instance of <code>{{dictionary}}<|K|, |V|></code>.
+    1.  Let |entries| be [=EnumerableOwnProperties=](|O|, "key+value").
+    1.  [=ReturnIfAbrupt=](|entries|).

Done.

> +    1.  Let |entries| be [=EnumerableOwnProperties=](|O|, "key+value").
+    1.  [=ReturnIfAbrupt=](|entries|).
+    1.  Repeat, for each element [|key|, |value|] of |entries| in [=List=] order:
+        1.  Let |typedKey| be |key| [=converted to an IDL value=] of type |K|.
+        1.  Let |typedValue| be |value| [=converted to an IDL value=] of type |V|.
+        1.  Assert: |typedKey| is not yet a key in |result|.
+        1.  Append to |result| a mapping from |typedKey| to |typedValue|.
+    1.  Return |result|.
+</div>
+
+<div algorithm="convert open dictionary to object" id="open-dictionary-to-es">
+    An IDL <code>{{dictionary}}<…></code> value |D| is [=converted to an
+    ECMAScript value|converted=] to an ECMAScript value as follows:
+
+    1.  Let |result| be a new <emu-val>Object</emu-val> instance
+        created as if by the expression <code>{}</code>.

Done.

> +    <table class="data">
+        <thead><th>Key</th><th>Value</th></thead>
+        <tr><td><code>"b"</code></td><td><code>3</code></td></tr>
+        <tr><td><code>"a"</code></td><td><code>4</code></td></tr>
+    </table>
+
+    Open dictionaries only consider [=own property|own=] [=enumerable=] properties, so given an IDL operation
+    <code>dictionary&lt;long> identity(dictionary&lt;long> arg)</code> which
+    returns its argument, the following code passes its assertions:
+
+    <pre highlight="js">
+        let proto = {a: 3, b: 4};
+        let obj = {__proto__: proto, d: 5, c: 6}
+        Object.defineProperty(obj, "e", {value: 7, enumerable: false});
+        let result = identity(obj);
+        assert(result.a === undefined);

Done.

> +        let obj = {__proto__: proto, d: 5, c: 6}
+        Object.defineProperty(obj, "e", {value: 7, enumerable: false});
+        let result = identity(obj);
+        assert(result.a === undefined);
+        assert(result.b === undefined);
+        assert(result.e === undefined);
+        let entries = Object.entries(result);
+        assert(entries[0][0] === "d");
+        assert(entries[0][1] === "5");
+        assert(entries[1][0] === "c");
+        assert(entries[1][1] === "6");
+    </pre>
+
+    Dictionary keys and values can be constrained, although keys can only be
+    constrained among the three string types. The following conversions all
+    throw {{TypeError}}s:

Good point. I've changed the examples to have a "result" column which shows the coercion.

> +        assert(result.a === undefined);
+        assert(result.b === undefined);
+        assert(result.e === undefined);
+        let entries = Object.entries(result);
+        assert(entries[0][0] === "d");
+        assert(entries[0][1] === "5");
+        assert(entries[1][0] === "c");
+        assert(entries[1][1] === "6");
+    </pre>
+
+    Dictionary keys and values can be constrained, although keys can only be
+    constrained among the three string types. The following conversions all
+    throw {{TypeError}}s:
+    <table class="data">
+        <thead><th>Value</th><th>Passed to type</th></thead>
+        <tr><td><code>{"😞": 1}</code></td><td><code>{{dictionary}}&lt;ByteString, long></code></td></tr>

I used `double` since I don't need the integer conversion.

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