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Maximum Size of Object Maps
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Limiting How Large Object Maps Can Grow
Rhai by default does not limit how large (i.e. the number of properties) an [object map] can be.
This can be changed via the Engine::set_max_map_size method, with zero being unlimited (the default).
A script attempting to create an object map literal with more properties than the maximum will terminate with a parse error.
Any script operation that produces an object map with more properties than the maximum also terminates the script with an error result.
This check can be disabled via the [unchecked] feature for higher performance (but higher risks as well).
let mut engine = Engine::new();
engine.set_max_map_size(500); // allow object maps with only up to 500 properties
engine.set_max_map_size(0); // allow unlimited object maps
Setting Maximum Size
Be conservative when setting a maximum limit and always consider the fact that a registered function may grow an object map's size without Rhai noticing until the very end.
For instance, the built-in '+' operator for object maps concatenates two object maps together to form one larger object map;
if both object maps are slightly below the maximum size limit, the resultant object map may be almost twice the maximum size.
As a malicious script may create a deeply-nested object map which consumes huge amounts of memory while each individual object map still stays under the maximum size limit, Rhai also recursively adds up the sizes of all [strings], [arrays] and [object maps] contained within each object map to make sure that the aggregate sizes of none of these data structures exceed their respective maximum size limits (if any).