Want to avoid eval AND Function constructor

Question

Trying hard to replace the eval without using Function constructor. Stumped. I am not a newbie but not an expert either.

jslint says this is evil; when I replaced it with a Function constructor, it said that was just a form of eval()!

   evaluateEventScript: function(requestObject) {
        var resultData;
        resultData = eval(requestObject.script);
        //send resultData elsewhere...
   }

Help??

Answer 1

Can't you pass a closure in your scenario? e.g

var c = function(){
   ...
}


var evaluateEventScript = function(requestObject) {
    var resultData;
    resultData = requestObject();
    //send resultData elsewhere...
}

evaluateEventScript(c);

Or something in this form? this can work without eval or Function constructor. but it requires the requestObject to be a function object, and not a String.

If you get JSON as a result, than eval is your first bet, but there are alternatives:

http://www.ajaxonomy.com/2007/json/json-load-object-without-using-eval