1378096 - Push API in Extensions

Status: UNCONFIRMED

Description

[joaomgcd]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.50 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Developed an extension and wanted to add support for receiving push messages in it using the Push API.


Actual results:

The Push API needs service workers which aren't supported in Extensions.


Expected results:

I should be able to receive push messages in Extensions.

Comment 1

[Caitlin Neiman [:caitmuenster]]

Hi joamgcd, this has been added to the agenda for the July 25 WebExtensions APIs triage. Would you be able to join us? 

Wiki: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Add-ons/Contribute/Triage#Next_Meeting

Agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BBIZhiHG1zlQiu6744jiAYyWJLa-B0iRu9vzWypkvF4/edit#heading=h.lx9xov4c2jf0

Comment 2

[joaomgcd]

Unfortunately I won't be available today at that time, but I'm happy to give some feedback if needed at a different time. Thanks in advance!

Comment 3

[Luca Greco [:rpl]]

We've discussed about this during the last week WebExtensions APIs triage, and we agreed that the first step is investigating the status of the ServiceWorker in a WebExtensions (e.g. how it should work), if allowing a ServiceWorker from inside a WebExtensions is not feasible, then we will evaluate how to expose the Push API to a WebExtension without the ServiceWorker (e.g. through a new WE API).

Marking this as investigate in the whiteboard (and needinfo assigned to me).

Comment 4

[Shane Caraveo (:mixedpuppy)]

seems removing ni? was not intentional.