863814 - Add the console API to web and chrome workers

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 620935

(DevTools :: Console, defect, P2)

Description

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

Web and Chrome workers cannot use the window.console API. There's no good reason why we do not allow that.

I imagine we need cannot use the dom/base/ConsoleAPI.js implementation as it is for web workers.

However, I wonder how we can add new objects and APIs to web workers and if web workers can know their owning window inner ID. If the answer is yes, we can definitely add a console API implementation for workers.

Boris: can you please point us to what we should do? Thanks!

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

> I wonder how we can add new objects and APIs to web workers

Either by defining a WebIDL interface for them (and a C++ implementation) or "very painfully" (as in, raw JSAPI), as far as I know....  Ben or Kyle might know more.

It should certainly be possible to pass the window id to non-shared workers, and we don't do shared workers yet.

Comment 2

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

(In reply to Boris Zbarsky (:bz) from comment #1)
> > I wonder how we can add new objects and APIs to web workers
> 
> Either by defining a WebIDL interface for them (and a C++ implementation) or
> "very painfully" (as in, raw JSAPI), as far as I know....  Ben or Kyle might
> know more.

Are there any such examples in the codebase? I'd like to see how painful that is.

Comment 4

[Mihai Sucan [:msucan]]

Heh, search fail on my part. Thanks Masatoshi.