845401 - Make Marionette support nested processes

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Remote Protocol :: Marionette, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

Since work to make B2G support nested processes is planned (bug 761935), we'll have to plan to support these in Marionette.

Comment 1

[Chris Jones [:cjones] inactive; ni?/f?/r? if you need me]

We'll need marionette to test many of the APIs we want to support in nested processes, so this is actually a dependency of that work.

Comment 2

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

What sort of timeline is this likely to be needed by?

Comment 3

[David Zbarsky (:dzbarsky)]

I'm currently working on nested processes.

Comment 4

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

Is this true nested content processes, or is this the plan (floated in another bug) in which all subprocesses would be a direct child of the top-level process, and there would be some degree of communication possible between different child processes?

Comment 5

[David Zbarsky (:dzbarsky)]

The current plan is true nested content processes.

Comment 6

[Jonathan Griffin (:jgriffin)]

Jonas, can you tell me when B2G will start to use nested content processes?  Is it in the 1.2 timeframe?  We'll need to make some significant changes to Marionette, so would like to know when to plan for it.

Comment 7

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

David is working on it, though I'm not sure if the latest thinking is child processes or sibling processes in nested iframes.

Comment 8

[David Zbarsky (:dzbarsky)]

I ended up implementing the sibling processes.  You can check out my patch queue at https://github.com/dzbarsky/mozilla-central/tree/nestedprocesses

Comment 9

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

And the work is happening over in bug 879475, right?

Comment 10

[David Zbarsky (:dzbarsky)]

(In reply to Jonas Sicking (:sicking) from comment #9)
> And the work is happening over in bug 879475, right?

Correct.

Comment 11

[David Burns :automatedtester]

[Mass closure] Closing as these features are no longer needed or wanted