[script] Strings automatically adopt from the global String template

This means string operations now can be applied on raw strings rather than
having to cast them using the String() class template wrapper.

String("something").CharAt(3)
now becomes simply:
"something".CharAt(3)

diff --git a/src/plugins/splash/script/script-execute.c b/src/plugins/splash/script/script-execute.c
index f986957e5245ff4cecb2de41a384f9802b344405..19a831d0cbc597e840419d29bda54ca02d5b278c 100644 (file)
--- a/src/plugins/splash/script/script-execute.c
+++ b/src/plugins/splash/script/script-execute.c
@@ -302,7 +302,18 @@ static script_obj_t *script_evaluate_func (script_state_t *state,
       this_obj = script_evaluate (state, name_exp->data.dual.sub_a);
       char *this_key_name = script_obj_as_string (this_key);
       script_obj_unref (this_key);
-      func_obj = script_obj_hash_get_element (this_obj, this_key_name);
+      func_obj = script_obj_hash_peek_element (this_obj, this_key_name);
+
+      if (!func_obj && script_obj_is_string (this_obj))
+        {
+          script_obj_t *string_hash = script_obj_hash_peek_element (state->global, "String");
+          func_obj = script_obj_hash_peek_element (string_hash, this_key_name);
+          script_obj_unref (func_obj);
+        }
+
+      if (!func_obj)
+        func_obj = script_obj_hash_get_element (this_obj, this_key_name);
+
       free(this_key_name);
     }
   else if (name_exp->type == SCRIPT_EXP_TYPE_TERM_VAR)