1552459 - not possible to add custom command handler (like thunderbird.exe -test)

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Philippe VIGNEAU]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:66.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/66.0

Steps to reproduce:

create a chrome.manifest :

component {823f4516-885f-492d-b8d3-d5e8c8316be1} test.js
contract @mozilla.org/commandlinehandler/general-startup;1?type=test {823f4516-885f-492d-b8d3-d5e8c8316be2}
category command-line-handler m-test @mozilla.org/commandlinehandler/general-startup;1?type=test

create a file test.js :

var { XPCOMUtils } = ChromeUtils.import("resource://gre/modules/XPCOMUtils.jsm");

function CardBookCmdLineHandler() {}
CardBookCmdLineHandler.prototype = {
classID: Components.ID("{823f4516-885f-492d-b8d3-d5e8c8316be2}"),
QueryInterface: ChromeUtils.generateQI([Components.interfaces.nsICommandLineHandler]),
helpInfo: " -test Do tests.\n",
handle: function (aCmdLine) {
if (aCmdLine.handleFlag("test", false)) {
// some stuff here
aCmdLine.preventDefault = true;
}
}
};

function NSGetFactory(cid) {
return (XPCOMUtils.generateNSGetFactory([CardBookCmdLineHandler]))(cid);
}

Actual results:

"thunderbird.exe -test" is correctly executed only when Thunderbird is already started.

Expected results:

Like with previous versions, "thunderbird.exe -test" should have executed even if Thunderbird is not already started

Comment 1

[Philippe VIGNEAU]

oops correct chrome.manifest :
component {823f4516-885f-492d-b8d3-d5e8c8316be2} test.js
contract @mozilla.org/commandlinehandler/general-startup;1?type=test {823f4516-885f-492d-b8d3-d5e8c8316be2}
category command-line-handler m-test @mozilla.org/commandlinehandler/general-startup;1?type=test

and according to Geoff : "component registration happens way to late"

Comment 2

[tormen]

I second this request. It is really sad that now "thunderbird -adressbook " is possible, but "thunderbird -cardbook" not anymore.

Either allow addition of NEW cli options, or allow overwriting the existing -adressbook one or replace the broken and outdated addressbook with cardbook anyways.

Please, please, please.

Tormen

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

The use case is primarily testing?
If that's not available, are the alternate solutions not working?

Comment 4

[Philippe VIGNEAU]

it's not for testing et there are no alternatives... :(

Comment 5

[Andreas Kilgus]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #3)

The use case is primarily testing?

Use case: To be able to start CardBook as an address book on its own, too. I have an icon for "thunderbird -cardbook" on my desktop, which led me directly to CardBook. Most of the time I am not going to use thunderbird's other features if I look something up in CardBook.

Comment 6

[tormen]

Well, this would be a solution:
https://gitlab.com/CardBook/CardBook/issues/761
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