473776 - test plugin should handle some sort of content

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

bz indicated that we had a bug fixed recently where we failed to hand the actual data off to the plugin implementation. To test this, we should make the test plugin able to handle some sort of content. I think just making it handle lists of key=value pairs, one per line, and saving them in a hashtable, with a scriptable func that's callable from JS to get values back out would be sufficient.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

That would work, I guess.  Even nicer would be if we could use this method to pass it whatever data attributes would pass it, so it would be easy to set up reftests using this stuff.

Comment 2

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

Yeah, we could do that too, I guess a mashup of the two would be the most flexible, so we could use it in reftest and mochitest. The argument parsing I added in bug 473577 is pretty simple and could be combined with this proposal.

Comment 3

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Resolving old bugs which are likely not relevant any more, since NPAPI plugins are deprecated.