715698 - Add support for SDK 1.4's new simple-prefs module

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Add-on Builder, defect)

Description

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

SDK 1.4 is shipping a new (currently experimental) API for integrating simple preferences into extensions via the new simple-prefs module.

In the offline SDK, preferences are defined as part of the addon's package.json file, like this:
{
    "fullName": "Example Add-on",
    ...
    "preferences": [{
        "name": "somePreference",
        "title": "Some preference title",
        "type": "string",
        "value": "this is the default string value"
    }]
}

But Builder doesn't give us direct access to package.json, so there would have to be some other way of creating the preferences that adds the prefs to package.json for the developer.

I guess it could be added to the Properties button's popout?

Comment 1

[Sean McArthur [:seanmonstar]]

This is done with bug 735531.