891796 - Geolocation spoofing in devtools

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(DevTools Graveyard :: WebIDE, defect, P3)

Description

[Sankha Narayan Guria [:sankha]]

Firefox Devtools should have an option to spoof the Geolocation, so that websites can be tested by changing the location.

Comment 1

[David]

Attachment: Geolocation overriding in devtools

Comment 2

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

(In reply to David from comment #1)
> Created attachment 824934 [details] [review]
> Geolocation overriding in devtools

Hi David. Thanks for looking at this.

Your code looks a lot like the code we already have in the simulator (see https://github.com/mozilla/r2d2b2g/tree/master/prosthesis/components ), but I think we want a different approach.

First, the fake geolocation provider needs to live at the toolkit level (not in /browser/ but in /toolkit/) because we might want to use this in B2G desktop (Simulator). Also, this needs to work via the remote protocol (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Remote_Debugging_Protocol) to make it available on the device. So using the fake geolocation needs to be done via an actor (see http://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/devtools/server/actors/ ).

Also, about the integration in the interface, we're not sure we want to move that at the toolbox level. We just don't know yet how to correctly expose API Simulation in the UI.

You might want to look at bug 925761 instead.

Comment 4

[Frédéric Harper]

It was previously in the simulator, but was removed, I think, when we went from the Firefox OS Simulator 4.x to App Manager. Can we add it back in the simulators used in App Manager?

Comment 5

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

(related: bug 943528)

Comment 6

[Frédéric Harper]

Oh my fault, I thought it was geolocation emulation. I'll fill another bug, as it's not about spoofing.

Comment 7

[Jan Keromnes [:janx]]

The platform will soon allow geolocation spoofing, which will be controlled by observer notifications. Once bug 925761 lands it should be easy to implement a devtools actor for it.

Comment 8

[Jan Keromnes [:janx]]

Not really sure what to do with this, as it started as a duplicate of bug 1069882 but ended up being a duplicate of bug 925761 (when I say "duplicate" I mean "original bug that was since duplicated by a more recent bug").

Anyway, I'll close this because there already is a way to spoof geolocation in WebIDE's Simulators (see bug 925761) and better geolocation tools should eventually be added to the devtools (see bug 1069882).