873829 - Enhanced Customization API

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: internalapi.diff

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Ubuntu Chromium/25.0.1364.160 Chrome/25.0.1364.160 Safari/537.22

Steps to reproduce:

GSOC Enhanced Customization APIs: Internal APIs prototype

Comment 1

[riadh.chtara]

Hey guys,
This the prototype of the internal apis I was talking about.
The prototype supports the following things
* synchronous set of a protected pref
* synchronous get of a protected pref
* asynchronous set of a protected pref
* asynchronous get of a protected pref
* synchronous set of many protected prefs
* synchronous get of many protected prefs
* asynchronous set of many protected prefs
* asynchronous get of many protected prefs
There is a UI asking the user for confirmation that is shown when setting same prefs. But this part is not finished yet. 
I will focus on solving same bugs as Kris suggested to me to improve my chances to get selected for gsoc.
If i will be chosen (which will be by the way awesome), I will continue working to improve the internal apis based on the prototype.

Comment 2

[riadh.chtara]

This an example of addon that uses the internal apis:

const { Cu } = require("chrome");
Cu.import("resource://gre/modules/EnhancedCustomizationAPIs.jsm");
DBhandler.init();
DBhandler.dbconnect();


DBhandler.dbset("browser.newtab.url", "www.gmail.com" , "{59c81df5-4b7a-477b-912d-4e0fdf64e5f2}", console.log);


(By the way the following lines will be included to a js file that's loaded at firefox start (browser.js) so the developer will not need to include them)  
DBhandler.init();
DBhandler.dbconnect();


DBhandler will be also renamed to CustomizeAPIs or something similar to that

Comment 3

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: adding ui+message

Comment 4

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: adding ui+message

Comment 5

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: screenshot

Comment 6

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: adding exceptions / creating Customize object

Comment 7

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: adding some tests/ fixing some bugs

Comment 8

[riadh.chtara]

Internal apis almost finished

Comment 9

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: fixing bugs

Comment 10

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: internal apis

Comment 11

[riadh.chtara]

Internal apis with tests

Comment 12

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: Enhanced Customization APIs- getmany setmany bug fixed

Comment 13

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: Enhanced Customization APIs- dead observers bug fixed

Comment 14

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: latest patch: beginning of the replacement of the old apis with the new ones

Comment 15

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: replacement of the old apis with the new ones

Comment 16

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: new version : incldues the beta of external + addons sdk apis

Comment 17

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: deleteoldentries.diff

Fixing bugs, tests are now working

Comment 18

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: newcmdmsg.diff

Comment 19

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: adding save to path option to external api

Comment 20

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: Adding save results to file option

Adding saving result to file option to external api

Comment 21

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: refactoring

Comment 22

[riadh.chtara]

Attachment: Merging+ refactoring

Merging the updates + refactoring