Sat-Sun, July 21-22, 2018

Written on Jul 21, 2018

Useful links for Bug XXX

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XTF
  • talks about XTF technologies
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox/Multiprocess_Firefox/Message_Manager
  • message managers
• http://books.mozdev.org/html/mozilla-chp-8-sect-2.html

  • query interface

More links for learning XPCOM

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/Guide/Avoiding_leaks_in_JavaScript_components
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/Tutorial/XPCOM_Interfaces

  • talks about XPCOM interfaces

Bug -

Things to do

• Create wrapper
• Add additional interfaces
• Overwrite this getter
• Use resolve hooks

Creating a wrapper

• https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/799c3f49233257bd5e899c4107f65ea394b7ae96/js/xpconnect/idl/nsIXPConnect.idl#232 I need to find a way to wrap the object I created. It does not seem like it is done manually.

  • Do we need to always wrap it?

• Reading this https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/799c3f49233257bd5e899c4107f65ea394b7ae96/js/xpconnect/src/xpcprivate.h#8-64 and I have a few questions TODO include a diagram

  • nsIClassInfo why not make all C++ classes implement this interface, so that JS consumers don’t have to call QueryInterface.