Create a Clipping Mask

What is the method that is required to make a mask clipping out of a layer as you would do using the layers panel in PS CS3? In the PS CS3 documentation for JavaScript, it is listed under paths, which is not what I am dealing with. Thank you for any help.

Is this what you are after?
//layer must be selected first
clippingMask();
function clippingMask() {
    var desc3 = new ActionDescriptor();
        var ref2 = new ActionReference();
        ref2.putEnumerated( charIDToTypeID('Lyr '), charIDToTypeID('Ordn'), charIDToTypeID('Trgt') );
    desc3.putReference( charIDToTypeID('null'), ref2 );
    executeAction( charIDToTypeID('GrpL'), desc3, DialogModes.NO );

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