1036506 - SDK require fails to load devtools code

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Joe Walker [:jwalker]]

Not only that but if you try to work around it with

var Cu = require("chrome");
var devtools = Cu.import("resource://gre/modules/devtools/Loader.jsm", {}).devtools;
var devtools.require("devtools/foo");

Then the SDK still gets in your way.
The best workaround is this

var Cu = require("chrome");
var devtools = Cu.import("resource://gre/modules/devtools/Loader.jsm", {}).devtools;
var devtools["req"+"uire"]("devtools/foo");

Comment 1

[Dave Townsend [:mossop] (PTO until Aug 21st)]

(In reply to Joe Walker [:jwalker] from comment #0)
> Not only that but if you try to work around it with
> 
> var Cu = require("chrome");
> var devtools = Cu.import("resource://gre/modules/devtools/Loader.jsm",
> {}).devtools;
> var devtools.require("devtools/foo");

This code should work now bug 1032275 is fixed. Will be in a SDK 1.17 we're releasing shortly.

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop] (PTO until Aug 21st)]

I just verified that this will work in 1.17. You get a warning about a missing module but that is ignorable.

Comment 3

[Joe Walker [:jwalker]]

Do we need another bug so that this works:

    var require("devtools/foo");

Comment 4

[Tomislav Jovanovic :zombie]

what exactly is that code supposed to do?

if you are trying to use the standard SDK require() method to load devtools modules, i don't think that would work because you need to configure the the loader so that it knows what "devtools/foo" maps to.