when writing a restlet function, does anyone know the parent object I can refer to to run dynamic function names from within the return? Example:

return {
    post: function (context) {
        switch (context.action) {
            case 'doStuff': return doStuff(context);
        }
    }
};

I'd like to clean up to

return {
    post: function(context) {
        return <parentObject>[context.action](context);
    }
};

like this?

var parentObject = {doStuff: function(){}}
return {
    post: function(context) {
        return parentObject[context.action](context);
    }
};

that's my last resort, is wrapping everything within the definer function within it's own object, but I was trying to avoid that

Maybe I don't entirely understand what you are looking for, but there's no

<parentObject>

mapping names to functions until you make one.

operating within the definer callback, I was hoping there was a undocumented reference to

this

that I could call from within it

You could move your action functions to another script file. Then when you import the other file in the define statement all the functions will be named properties of the corresponding imported object.

yea.... was kind've hoping for something similar within NetSuite's Rhino

Don't think there is 🙁

im not sure why you want to avoid closures

I actually tried that, but NetSuite replied that the function did not exist within the object, which makes me thing

this

in that context isn't referencing the closure defined as part of

define()

I think your two options are 1) explicitly define an object that maps action names to functions 2) move your functions to another script file and have the import statement automatically create the object in step 1

thanks, combined with @erictgrubaugh comment, I have a direction to go in