Javascript issue due to reserved keywords

I'm calling the Jersey REST client Java API in JavaScript from a BIRT report design. The sample code is listed below. The last line is getting a JavaScript syntax error "missing name after . operator". I believe it's because class is a reserved keyword in JavaScript. I have to pass ClientResponse.class into the Java get method. Is there a way to work around this issue? I feel Rhino JavaScript has to have a resolution.

var clientConfig = new DefaultClientConfig();
var client = Client.create(clientConfig);
var webResource = client.resource("http://localhost/test/getStatus");
var clientResponse = webResource.type(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML).get(ClientResponse.class);

Thanks!

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johnw

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'hgu1'" data-cid="73267" data-time="1297483878" data-date="11 February 2011 - 09:11 PM">
I'm calling the Jersey REST client Java API in JavaScript from a BIRT report design. The sample code is listed below. The last line is getting a JavaScript syntax error "missing name after . operator". I believe it's because class is a reserved keyword in JavaScript. I have to pass ClientResponse.class into the Java get method. Is there a way to work around this issue? I feel Rhino JavaScript has to have a resolution. 
 
var clientConfig = new DefaultClientConfig(); 
var client = Client.create(clientConfig); 
var webResource = client.resource("<a class='bbc_url' href='http://localhost/test/getStatus'>http://localhost/test/getStatus"</a>); 
var clientResponse = webResource.type(MediaType.APPLICATION_XML).get(ClientResponse.class); 
 
Thanks! </blockquote>
 
ClientResponse.getClass()? 
 
If class is some sort of property, you may end up having to use reflection in the Rhino engine, or else use a Java event handler instead of the Javascript one. 
 
So something like: 
var cr = new ClientResponse(); 
var rciClass = cr.getClass(); 
 
var fieldFromScript = rciClass.getDeclaredField("class"); 
fieldFromScript.setAccessible(true); 
 
var execContext = fieldFromScript.get(cr); 
 
var classFromCR = cr.class; // 
 
What is ClientResponse a type of? Is there some sort of get method to get access to class? 
 
John

hgu1

ClientResponse itself is a Java class defined by Sun's Jersey implementation of REST API. "class" is the standard static property of type "Class" defined by Java rather than a property defined in ClientResponse.

The following code that you've suggested has removed the JavaScript syntax error I ran into.
var cr = new ClientResponse();
var rciClass = cr.getClass();

After that, I've run into some other issues which I don't believe is related to the above code. So I think the above code has solved my original problem.

Thanks a lot, John.