Passing JS function to Emscripten-generated code

Question

I have a piece of C++ code converted to JavaScript via Emscripten. I would like the converted C++ code to call back to the JavaScript code that calls it. Something like:

Answer 1

A thing that is frequently done in Emscripten is to map strong types to simple ones.

JS:

function callback(message) {
    alert(message);
}

var func_map = {
    0: callback
};

// C/C++ functions get a _ prefix added
function _invoke_callback(callback_id, text_ptr) {
    func_map[callback_id](Pointer_stringify(text_ptr));
}

ccall("my_c_function", ..., 0);

C++:

// In C/C++ you only need to declare the func signature and
// make sure C is used to prevent name mangling
extern "C" void invoke_callback(int callback_id, const char* text);

void my_c_function(int callback_id) {
    invoke_callback( callback_id, "Hello World!" );
}

And of course, you can add some glue code, so this gets very seamless.