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Pierre
Pierre

Reputation: 35226

mozilla firefox extension: creating a javascript library and using it in a HTML page

I created a library in a firefox extension :

./components/main.js
./skin/icon.png
./install.rdf
./chrome.manifest

my main.js would use define a class calling a mozilla TCPScoket ( https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/TCPSocket) 

function MYLib() {}    
MYLib.prototype.doWork = function(arg1,arg2) { /* do something with TCPScoket */}

How should I use my library on the client side in the HTML ?

I'm looking for something like (?):

<html><head><script>
var mylib = MozillaApiThing.createNewInstance("chrome://myextension/", "MYLib");
 ....
 </script>(...)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 129

Answers (1)

erosman
erosman

Reputation: 7721

chrome or resource (not in restartless) URLs are available as direct URLs (ie you can enter them into address-bar and they show up). Therefore you can use it as a simple script src 

<script src="chrome://myextension/components/jsfile.js"></script>

Alternatively, you can read the JS file (ie with XMLHttpRequest or FileUtils.jsm or osfile.jsm) and then insert the content into the page with createElement('script'), textContent and appendChild()

Alternatively, you can try The message manager

Note: Inserted local script into the page will have the content page scope (no access to browser scope API)

Upvotes: 1

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