1363008 - Support all extension storage types

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Storage Inspector, enhancement, P3)

Comment 2

[Mike Ratcliffe [:miker] [:mratcliffe] [:mikeratcliffe]]

(In reply to Tom Tromey :tromey from comment #4)
> (In reply to David Bruant from comment #3)
> > WebExtensions have a storage API that will need to be debugged
> > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/storage
> > 
> > I'm not up-to-date on the WebExtension developer experience right now. Is
> > there a Storage Inspector for WebExtensions?
> 
> I don't know, but Mike might.

Yes, there is but it only works with IndexedDB right now.

Simple storage is no longer needed.

David is referring to the chrome.storage space inside Web Extension Code... we need to add that to the Storage Inspector so let's re-purpose this bug.

Comment 3

[Mike Ratcliffe [:miker] [:mratcliffe] [:mikeratcliffe]]

Filter on HOTFROG.

Comment 4

[Mike Ratcliffe [:miker] [:mratcliffe] [:mikeratcliffe]]

@luca I would like to add a Web Extension storage type to the storage inspector. It would look something like this:

Web Extension
  GUID1
  GUID2
  GUID3
  GUID4
    storage.sync
      Key      Value
      pref1    value1
      pref2    value2
    storage.local
      ...
    storage.managed
      ...

You get the idea. Of course, I could add other info related to the web extension but I am only worried about storage.(sync|local|managed) for now.

The problem is that I can't find a way to get at the context of the web extension to get at it's storage. I also need to know when the storage has been changed via:
storage.onChanged

Do you have any idea how this can be done? Everybody I have spoken to is coming up blank.

Comment 5

[Mike Ratcliffe [:miker] [:mratcliffe] [:mikeratcliffe]]

Attachment: [WIP] extension-storage.diff

At the moment this is on hold because there is no way for us to access the background process of an extension.

There is little point working on this at the moment until project Fission is complete.

Comment 6

[Mike Ratcliffe [:miker] [:mratcliffe] [:mikeratcliffe]]

Also see bug 1292234

Comment 7

[Belén [:ladybenko]]

At the moment we are showing one type of extension storage, but there are three of them https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/storage

Comment 8

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