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Test Pilot

The add-on where ideas come to idea

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installation

npm install

configuration

prod: check the CONFIG property in package.json dev: dev-prefs.json

development

A relatively easy path for working on this addon involves the following steps:

  1. Install Firefox Developer Edition.

  2. Disable add-on signature checks. TL;DR: Enter about:config in the URL bar. Set xpinstall.signatures.required and xpinstall.whitelist.required flags to false.

  3. Install the Extension Auto-Installer Add-on in Firefox Developer Edition.

  4. Run npm start to fire up a watcher that will build the Test Pilot add-on whenever files change and auto-update the installed version in Firefox.

  5. Read all about setting up an extension development environment on MDN.

For UI hacking you can run npm run watch-ui to easily debug lib/templates.js and data/panel.css

running once for testing

This should package the add-on and fire up Firefox Beta using a fresh profile with the add-on installed.

packaging

npm run sign

distributing

We serve the add-on from the /static/addon/ directory. We will need to get the add-on signed via AMO and move it into the correct directory. This is all packaged into a script, npm run sign in the package.json.

Events

Accepted:

  • install-experiment
  • uninstall-experiment
  • uninstall-self
  • sync-installed

Emitted:

  • sync-installed-result
  • addon-install:install-started
  • addon-install:install-new
  • addon-install:install-cancelled
  • addon-install:install-ended
  • addon-install:install-failed
  • addon-install:download-started
  • addon-install:download-progress
  • addon-install:download-ended
  • addon-install:download-cancelled
  • addon-install:download-failed
  • addon-uninstall:uninstall-started
  • addon-uninstall:uninstall-ended
  • addon-manage:enabled
  • addon-manage:disabled
  • addon-self:installed
  • addon-self:enabled
  • addon-self:upgraded
  • addon-self:uninstalled

Any emitted events prefixed with addon-install: will have an associated object which will be structured as such:

{
  "name": "Fox Splitter",
  "error": 0,
  "state": 6,
  "version": "2.1.2012122901.1-signed",
  "progress": 517308,
  "maxProgress": 517308
}

The event addon-install:install-ended will include some extra properties:

{
  "id": "[email protected]",
  "name": "Fox Splitter",
  "error": 0,
  "state": 6,
  "version": "2.1.2012122901.1-signed",
  "progress": 517308,
  "maxProgress": 517308,
  "description": "Splits browser window as you like.",
  "homepageURL": "http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/xul/foxsplitter/index.html.en",
  "iconURL": "file:///tmp/074a4b62-239e-49bb-b75a-4935c349855c/extensions/[email protected]/icon.png",
  "size": 511221,
  "signedState": 2,
  "permissions": 13
}

Talking to the add-on

You will need to setup the following function (or an equivalent) to send messages to the add-on.

function sendToAddon (data) {
  document.documentElement.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent(
    'from-web-to-addon', { bubbles: true, detail: data }
  ));
}

Then you can use the sendToAddon method to send messages.

sendToAddon({type: 'loaded'});

and to setup listeners.

window.addEventListener("from-addon-to-web", function (event) {
  if (!event.detail || !event.detail.type) { return; }
  statusUpdate(event.detail.type, event.detail);
  switch (event.detail.type) {
    case 'sync-installed':
      syncInstalledAddons(event.detail);
      break;
    default:
      console.log('WEB RECEIVED FROM ADDON', JSON.stringify(event.detail, null, ' '));
      break;
  }
}, false);

Submit updates:

sendToAddon({type: 'install-experiment', detail: {xpi_url: 'https://people.mozilla.com/~jhirsch/universal-search-addon/addon.xpi'}});

Maintainers

Attribution

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