806834 - Expose EventSource to Add-on SDK scripts

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

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

Description

[patryk]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:16.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/16.0
Build ID: 20121024073032

Steps to reproduce:

I try to use EventSource inteface in my add-on sdk based addon, but I'm unable to properly import the interface from Firefox. So far I've managed to do this:

obj = Cc["@mozilla.org/eventsource;1"].createInstance(Ci.nsIEventSource);
systemPrincipal =Cc["@mozilla.org/systemprincipal;1"].createInstance(Ci.nsIPrincipal);
obj.init(systemPrincipal, null, null, url, withCredentials);


Actual results:

As far as I see it from https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Server-sent_events/EventSource, init() can't be used from scripting code, so it's impossible to use it.


Expected results:

There should be possible to use this interface or implemented as a module in Add-on SDK.

Comment 1

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

Do we want to do this?

Comment 2

[Jeff Griffiths (:canuckistani) (:⚡︎)]

A note for Irakli

Comment 3

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

I think this very useful new DOM API that I can see being useful for add-ons but not sure if do have resources to actually do it though.

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399562