1876115 - Allow getting Bookmark keywords with the addons API

Status: NEW

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement)

Description

[OBlockWarMachine]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:122.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/122.0

Steps to reproduce:

Look at this page: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Add-ons/WebExtensions/API/bookmarks/BookmarkTreeNode, bookmark keywords aren't available in the addons API.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Firefox::Bookmarks & History' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Ina Popescu, Desktop QA]

Thank you for submitting this enhancement. Setting the component and waiting for the developer's opinion about it.
If this is not the correct component, please feel free to change it to a more appropriate one.

Comment 3

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

We should not expose keywords as they are today, because the Search team is evaluating a redesign of that feature.
It's likely in the future keywords will become a search functionality, rather than a bookmarks one.
Bookmarks may retain some kind of "nickname" support, with no search capability (as that will be moved to Search), but it's a decision to be made yet.
Since all of this is not in a stable state, adding an API wouldn't be a good idea.

Comment 4

[OBlockWarMachine]

"The Search team is evaluating a redesign of that feature" is there anywhere I could read about this?

Comment 5

[Marco Bonardo [:mak]]

Not yet, some work is in progress, but it's a low priority.

Edit: there's some discussion in Bug 648398, but it's not completely up-to-date.