MiniME

API

Programatically invoking MiniME

In addition to the command line tool, MiniME can also be invoked programmatically through a programming interface (API) from any .NET client program. This can be used to dynamically obfuscate JavaScript files directly on an ASP.NET server.

Before using MiniME programmatically, you must add a reference to it from your .NET project.
Depending on your development environment this might be done in any of a number of different ways - please consult the documentation for your development tool.

Create an instance of the MiniMI Compiler object. eg:

// Create an instance of the MiniME minifier
var mm = new MiniME.Compiler();

Set MiniME options. eg:
```
// Setup options
mm.MaxLineLength = 0;
```

Add files to process:

// Add files
mm.AddFile("MyJavaScriptFile.js", Encoding.UTF8)

or, add script directly

mm.AddScript("snippet", "<javascript code here>");

Compile the script

// Compile and write to an output file
mm.OutputFileName="MyMinifiedFile.js";
mm.OutputEncoding=Encoding.UTF8;
mm.Compile();

or, compile to a string

var ObfuscatedScript=mm.CompileToString();

That's it!