794574 - PageMod should have a port property

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

It should be possible to send a message to all open/unfrozen workers associated with a page mode like so:

var mod = PageMode({..});
mod.port.emit('poke', 'get to work!');

Comment 1

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

Does the change in comment 1 sound ok ?

Comment 2

[Irakli Gozalishvili [:irakli] [:gozala] [@gozala]]

(In reply to Erik Vold [:erikvold] [:ztatic] from comment #1)
> Does the change in comment 1 sound ok ?

Yeah it sounds like it would match other APIs in the behavior.

I doubt it's a good first bug though.

Comment 4

[Alan]

+1 for this. I have to use a gobal in my add-on to store the page-worker for my pageMod. Maybe don't call it mod.port.emit() though. It can be confusing, as in other situations port sends to one worker only. maybe call it mod.port.broadcast().
Whatever it end up being called, it would be really nice to have it

Comment 5

[Erik Vold [:erikvold] (please needinfo? me)]

Hey Matteo, are you working on this one? if not could you please unassign yourself.

Comment 6

[BMO Automation]

Add-on SDK is no longer supported so resolving bugs as INCOMPLETE