twill

twill

A new approch to javascript aspect oriented programming. Twill is an attempt to create an AOP framework for javascript that feels like it was written for javascript. Twill will run fine in both node and in the browser.

install

npm install twill

example

var twill = require("twill"),
    foo = {
        stuff: function (a,b,c) { 
            console.log("stuff");
        },
        things: function () {
            console.log("things");
        },
        foo: function (bar, baz) {
            console.log(bar);
            console.log(baz);
        }
    };

var foo_aspect = twill.aspect(foo, function (weave) {
    weave.before.stuff(function (a, b, c) {
        console.log("calling stuff!");
    });

    weave.after.things(function (a, b, c) {
        console.log("called things!");
    });

    weave.around.foo(function (args, orig) {
        orig(args[0] || "default_bar", args[1] || "default_baz");
    });

    weave.create.sweet = function () {
        console.log("dude");
    };

    //can be done for before/after/around (around also passes orig)
    weave.all.after(function (method, args) {
        window.stats.track(method);
        console.log("stats +1 for " + method);
    });

    weave.create.dude = function () {
        console.log("sweet");
    };
});

foo.stuff("one", "two", "three");
// calling stuff
// stuff
// stats +1 for stuff

foo.things(1,2,3);
//things
//called things
//status +1 for things

foo.foo();
//default_bar
//default_baz
//stats +1 for things

foo.sweet();
//dude
//stats +1 for sweet

foo.dude();
//sweet

twill.unweave(foo_aspect);

foo.stuff("one", "two", "three");
// stuff

foo.things(1,2,3);
//things

foo.foo();
//undefined
//undefined

foo.sweet();
//method not defined

foo.dude();
//method not defined

todo:

This is a very early release and not everything is done just yet. Still todo:

• advice.all methods are not implemented
• unweaving is not supported yet.
• make it work in the browser

how to develop

all code should have tests written in node-unit. Run the tests with:

jake test