Call a JavaScript function in a different library

Question

It seems to me that this should be possible. In an XPages application I have two ServerSide JavaScript Libraries jsMain and jsSave. In the jsMain I have this Script:

function thisAction(msg:String){
    try{

    switch(msg){
    case "Save" :
        print("This action = " + msg);
        if (jsSave.processAction()){
            print("jsSave.processAction returned true");
            return true;
            break;
        }else{
            print("jsSave.processAction returned false");
            return false;
            break;
        }
    default:
        print("In default msg is " + msg);
        return false;
        break;
    }
    }catch(e){
        print("thisAction Failed in jsMain " + e.toString())
    }
}

In a button on an XPage I call thisAction("Save") and it invokes the thisAction function, now when the msg is Save I want to call the function processAction but it resides in the JS Library jsSave. What I have above fails with the error: thisAction Failed in jsMain 'jsSave' not found

So is there a way to tell this code that processAction is in an different SSJS Library?

Answer 1

Add

import jsSave

on top of your jsMain library, no quotes, no filename extension: you will be able to use functions declared inside jsSave from jsMain.

Answer 2

If jsMain was loaded first, you can't call a function in jsSave. However, you can call a function in jsMain from jsSave because it was loaded first.

Answer 3

Your page should include both the js libraries and jsSave library should be first.

<script src="jsSave.js"></script>
<script src="jsMain.js"></script>

Also please refer to modular javascript pattern.

Answer 4

Have you tried adding both libraries to your page? I'd think that would work. Alternatively I THINK at the top of the library you can do something similar to the LotusScript :

use "myLibrary" 

I want to say you do :

import("jsSave");

But I'm not positive of the syntax. I'm sure I've done it once long ago though.