850449 - Expose 'addon' to scripts matching custom addon-page URIs

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Add-on SDK Graveyard :: General, defect, P1)

Description

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

It'd be nice to expose the addon object to page scripts similar to trusted page content in panels, so the scripts can communicate back to the main addon script without attaching a content script.

Comment 2

[Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau]]

Attachment: Pull request 851

Myk, would something like this ease the usage of addon-page?
We are automagically exposing an `addon` global object that act exactly like `self` in content scripts but injected directly into all addon page documents.
Then you can send and receive page events with :
let page = require("sdk/addon-page");
page.on("message",...);
page.postMessage()
page.port.on(...);
page.port.emit(...);

Irakli, Would you bless such new high-level feature?

Comment 3

[Myk Melez [:myk] [@mykmelez]]

Comment on attachment 724213 [details]
Pull request 851

Yes, that would indeed make addon-page easier to use!  It would enable me to eliminate a whole layer of the stack.

Comment 4

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

Looks like addon-page is going to be dropped in australis so we probably don't need to work on this bug anymore