On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 3:45 PM, Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu> wrote: > > "Whatever makes everyone happy" ;) >> > > I want a unicorn too! ;) > > Seriously, I think we'll get somewhere here. I really do. > > Just to make sure we're on the same page, by the way, do the dictionaries > coming from CryptoKey.algorithm ever have missing properties, or are they > always completely filled in? > > They're always completely filled in by the time normalization & construction of the CryptoKey has happened, and they're immutable then and forever more. Which is nice. > Well, IDL could define it generically. But you could define how to clone > your particular dictionaries specifically. Which is more or less what I'm already doing for the "copy an ArrayBufferView" bit. So we're on the same page, I'm imagining that it would (effectively) be something like http://heycam.github.io/webidl/#es-dictionary 's step for converting an IDL dictionary type to an ECMAScript Object, except that instead of DefineOwnProperty, it's something like "construct an IDL value whose type is the type member is declared to be of and that represents the same value as member on source." This covers the primitives (DOMString, bool, numerics), but presumably gets grotty around object-sub-objects, which may involve some more magic hand-waving.
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