287441 - add __LOCATION__ property to help JS components to find their current location

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XPConnect, defect)

Description

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

We have some JS components in Calendar that need to find their current path, so
that they can subscript-load other files we package in the same dir.  This code
needs to work in Sunbird, the calendar extensions for Firefox/Tbird/Seamonkey,
and in Lightning, so having a way to find the installed path at createInstance
time would be very, very helpful.

This seems like something that will likely help others as well, since it's one
of the few ways to write extension-UUID-agnostic, multi-file JS component code.
 Patch coming up, it's exactly what you expect.

Comment 1

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Attachment: __LOCATION__ is the nsILocalFile

Comment 2

[David Bradley]

Comment on attachment 178406 [details] [diff] [review]
__LOCATION__ is the nsILocalFile

r=dbradley

Looks good

Comment 3

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

Fixed.