WebAssembly.Table() constructor

The WebAssembly.Table() constructor creates a new Table object of the given size and element type.

Syntax

new WebAssembly.Table(tableDescriptor);

Parameters

tableDescriptor
An object that can contain the following members:
element
A string representing the type of value to be stored in the table. At the moment this can only have a value of "anyfunc" (functions).
initial
The initial number of elements of the WebAssembly Table.
maximum Optional
The maximum number of elements the WebAssembly Table is allowed to grow to.

Exceptions

  • If tableDescriptor is not of type object, a TypeError is thrown.
  • If maximum is specified and is smaller than initial, a RangeError is thrown.

Examples

Creating a new WebAssembly Table instance

The following example (see table2.html source code and live version) creates a new WebAssembly Table instance with an initial size of 2 elements. We then print out the table length and contents of the two indexes (retrieved via Table.prototype.get() to show that the length is two and both elements are null.

var tbl = new WebAssembly.Table({initial:2, element:"anyfunc"});
console.log(tbl.length);  // "2"
console.log(tbl.get(0));  // "null"
console.log(tbl.get(1));  // "null"

We then create an import object that contains the table:

var importObj = {
  js: {
    tbl:tbl
  }
};

Finally, we load and instantiate a wasm module (table2.wasm) using the WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming() method.  The table2.wasm module contains two functions (one that returns 42 and another that returns 83) and stores both into elements 0 and 1 of the imported table (see text representation).  So after instantiation, the table still has length 2, but the elements now contain callable Exported WebAssembly Functions which we can call from JS.

WebAssembly.instantiateStreaming(fetch('table2.wasm'), importObject)
.then(function(obj) {
  console.log(tbl.length);
  console.log(tbl.get(0)());
  console.log(tbl.get(1)());
});

Note how you've got to include a second function invocation operator at the end of the accessor to actually invoke the referenced function and log the value stored inside it (e.g. get(0)() rather than get(0)) .

This example shows that we're creating and accessing the table from JavaScript, but the same table is visible and callable inside the wasm instance too.

Specifications

Browser compatibility

BCD tables only load in the browser

See also