I have some questions about panel on the Firefox addon. How do I ajax request from panel? And How to debug panel? Firebug can’t see panel.
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I have some questions about panel on the Firefox addon. How do I ajax request from panel? And How to debug panel? Firebug can’t see panel.
If you need to do a request to a web api from a panel, you’ll need to actually make the web request in main.js, and send the result to your panel using
Some documentation you should look at:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/latest/dev-guide/guides/content-scripts/index.html
The SDK uses an asynchronous event-driven system to send messages between objects such as a panel and the main addon code. The above guide to content scripts is a great backgrounder for how this system works.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers/docs/sdk/latest/packages/addon-kit/request.html
The request module allows you to make requests to any web service.
Here is an example add-on that makes a request to the twitter api and passes the results to a page-mod:
https://builder.addons.mozilla.org/package/45866/latest/
This implementation is similar to what you would need to do to trigger an api request from a panel.