custom protocol handlers in bootstrapped firefox addon - firefox-addon

I am writing a bootstrap Firefox addon and need to register a new protocol/schema handler (e.g. foo:somthing). I have looked all over and I only see ways to do this using chrome.manifest, which bootstrapped add-ons cannot use.
So, does anyone know a way or is it possible to register a custom protocol handler in a bootstrapped add-on?

Yes, but you'll have to do the work that the add-on/component manager would do for you, in particular calling .registerFactory yourself.
There is already a test demonstrating how to register components in general, and protocol handlers in particular, at runtime yourself.

Although #nmair's answer is a good general thing I'll keep in mind, I was able to find a better solution to my own problem. I noticed that there was an HTML5 method that would try to ask the user to register a handler for a protocol/schema, and after picking around in omni.ja (firefox source code), I found it's definition. After fiddling around, I wrote this:
var handler = Cc["#mozilla.org/uriloader/web-handler-app;1"]
.createInstance(Ci.nsIWebHandlerApp);
handler.name='My Protocol';
handler.uriTemplate='chrome://myprotocol/content/launcher.xul#%s';
var eps=Cc["#mozilla.org/uriloader/external-protocol-service;1"].
getService(Ci.nsIExternalProtocolService);
var handlerInfo=eps.getProtocolHandlerInfo('myprotocol');
handlerInfo.possibleApplicationHandlers.appendElement(handler, false);
handlerInfo.alwaysAskBeforeHandling=false; // don't ask the user
handlerInfo.preferredApplicationHandler=handler; // set my handler as default
hi=handlerInfo;
var hs=Cc["#mozilla.org/uriloader/handler-service;1"].
getService(Ci.nsIHandlerService);
hs.store(handlerInfo);
Registers the protocol, no restart or components required.

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JS callback to Vaadin component

I have a JS component (SigPlot) that I need to read click values from. I have instantiated SigPlot inside of a VerticalLayout, where I also instantiate a DIV to pass to the SigPlot constructor. I am not sure if this is a valid way, but it works.
Now I need to read CLICKS but I am having troubles finding correct way to do this. Can someone pass some words of wisdom?
In my constructor for my VIEW, it use addAttachListener to start my JS code using.
div.addAttachListener(e->{
e.getUI().getPage().executeJs("myInit($0)",div);
});
How can I register a click listener to this?
Regards
As long as it's just a regular DOM event listener, then something like this should work:
div.getElement().addEventListener("click", event -> Notification.show("Clicked"));
If you need to do something on a more granular level, then your might want to expose callbacks as #ClientCallable and then use executeJs to run some short JavaScript snippets to set up listeners that delegate to those methods.

Banned 010 ServletResponse.setContentType() to Replace by the ESAPI HTTPUtilities.setCurrentHTTP()

To set a ServletResponse ContentType you can, for example, implement this ServletResponse.setContentType('text/plain') or ServletResponse.setContentType('text/html') for HTML. But this statement should be replaced by using the ESAPI library like ESAPI.httpUtilities.setContentType() to address potential vulnerability. According to the org.owasp.esapi APIs document (as I understood), the org.owasp.esapi Interface HTTPUtilities setContentType() doesn't allow you to switch from 'text/plain' to 'text/html' programmatically. Is there an ESAPI example or tutorial to show me how to use the ESAPI.httpUtilities.setCurrentHTTP() to change the content type from 'text/plain' to'text/html' programmatically?
Looks like the answer to this is no:
The reference implementation doesn't allow for programmatic access, it's hard-coded:
https://github.com/ESAPI/esapi-java-legacy/blob/develop/sac/main/java/org/owasp/esapi/reference/DefaultHTTPUtilities.java
The "setContentType" method is programmed only to pull the property
value defined in esapi.properties:
Using UTF-8 throughout your stack is highly recommended. That
includes your database driver,
container, and any other technologies you may be using. Failure to do this may expose you
to Unicode transcoding injection attacks. Use of UTF-8 does not hinder internationalization.
HttpUtilities.ResponseContentType=text/html; charset=UTF-8
If you want to add that capability you can submit a pull request with your changes at github, or you can write your own one-off for your organization. I'm not a big fan that the original owners hardcoded this, but that part of the library was written back in 2007.
To do what you want to do, you would have to subclass the reference implementation DefaultHTTPUtilities to add a setContentType(String headerValue) method. You'd then need to configure ESAPI to use that class instead by changing the 'ESAPI.HTTPUtilities' property in your ESAPI.properties class to reference your custom class.
Furthermore, calling ESAPI.httpUtilities.setContentType() is probably overrated unless you have customized an ESAPI Authenticator interface and are using that custom implementation. (The reference implementation for it is just a toy example.) Then you would to call Authenticator.login() to get much of a benefit from calling ESAPI.httpUtilities.setContentType(value). Of course, you'd have to change the HttpUtilities interface as well to add a new method that takes a header value.
As to whether there is any decent documentation on this? Probably not, at least not that I'm aware of.

How elaborate more an intermediate event via a C# function invocation?

I'm novice in NESPER, and in some point of my application (stm-A), I need to use a function in C# that transform the original event in (possible) several different events (the original one enriched, and possibly additional events)
I think that a possible approach would be to create a listener for (stm-A), invoke the function and then inject the new events again to the engine.
This is right? There is a better way to do this?
Thanks in advance.
Look at User Defined Functions (http://www.espertech.com/esper/release-5.2.0/esper-reference/html/functionreference.html#epl-function-user-defined and here: http://www.espertech.com/esper/release-5.2.0/esper-reference/html/extension.html#custom-singlerow-function).
The documentation is for Java, but the same principle applies to .Net and Nesper. You'll need to "tell" Nesper about the function (via configuration) and then just call it directly from your EPL.

How best to expose a class instance in DWScript

I am putting together a built-in script capability using the excellent Pascal DWScript. I have also add my own Delphi-side class definition (TDemo) to DWScript using:
dwsUnit.ExposeRTTI( TDemo.ClassInfo )
This just works and is a great way of quickly adding properties and methods.
I also wish to add an existing instance in a similar way, so I have created my instance FDemo of type TDemo and then performed:
dwsUnit.ExposeInstanceToUnit( 'Demo', 'TDemo', FDemo );
This looks a promising routine to call but I get an AV from an uninitialised unit table. I've also looked in the unit test code of the SVN source to see the use of this function but to no avail. Can anyone point me at what I should add / change?
ExposeInstanceToUnit has to be used from within the TdwsUnit table initialization, see RTTIExposeTests/ExposeInstancesAfterInitTable for some sample code. It allows directly exposing dynamic instances.
The other approach is to use the Instances collection of a TdwsUnit component, you get design-time support, and more controls over your instances and their lifetime.
Also keep in mind you have to make sure the instances you expose will properly behave even if the script misbehaves, f.i. when the user attempts to manually destroys an instance you exposed, and that instance shouldn't be destroyed. By default ExposeRTTI will map the destructors, so you may want to restrict that by specifying eoNoFreeOnCleanup.
edit: a last approach recently added is to use the TdwsRttiConnector, which basically allows exposing and connection to anything that's reachable through RTTI. That's very lightweight in terms of code to setup, but the downside is you don't get any form of compile-time checks.

Inclusion Handling in MVC 2 / MVCContrib

I'd like to improve my page by combining and minifying javascript and CSS files. Since MVCContrib already contains a project called IncludeHandling, I took a look at that which unfortunately left me with unanswered questions:
There is quite a set of interfaces and objects involved in the process. Now I'm using Ninject.Mvc, but it seems that MvcContrib.IncludeHandling is using some additional (home-brewed?) DI? Can I work around this? Has anybody used this and can share some experiences?
Secondly, advice that is often heard is to put static content on different domains so the request does not contain cookies and the like, making it much easier for the server to handle the request. But how can I combine this with automatic inclusion handling - isn't that necessarily served in the same application?
EDIT: Figured that there is really just a single resolve call in the whole thing, i really wonder why they use DI for that... Thinking about a fork there...
Well, MvcContrib.IncludeHandling uses MvcContrib's DependencyResolver to find the necessary components. It's not very well documented (see the sample site for more detail, although in that case uses a custom injector).
For example, MvcContrib.Castle has a WindsorDependencyResolver for that IoC container that you can mimic to use NInject (there may be something if you Google around).
The initialization is quite verbose, but goes like this (container is the Windsor container, in your case, use NInject):
var httpContextProvider = new HttpContextProvider(HttpContext.Current);
var settings = IIncludeHandlingSettings)ConfigurationManager.GetSection("includeHandling");
container.Register(Component.For(typeof(IIncludeReader)).ImplementedBy(typeof(FileSystemIncludeReader)));
container.Register(Component.For(typeof(IIncludeStorage)).ImplementedBy(typeof(StaticIncludeStorage)));
container.Register(Component.For(typeof(IKeyGenerator)).ImplementedBy(typeof(KeyGenerator)));
container.Register(Component.For(typeof(IIncludeHandlingSettings)).Instance(settings));
container.Register(Component.For(typeof(IHttpContextProvider)).Instance(httpContextProvider));
container.Register(Component.For(typeof(IIncludeCombiner)).ImplementedBy(typeof(IncludeCombiner)));
container.Register(Component.For(typeof(IncludeController)).ImplementedBy(typeof(IncludeController)).LifeStyle.Transient);
DependencyResolver.InitializeWith(new WindsorDependencyResolver(Container));
This way you can register all the dependencies that are needed. Beware that you need the includeHandler section in your web config.
<configSections>
<section name="includeHandling" type="MvcContrib.IncludeHandling.Configuration.IncludeHandlingSectionHandler, MvcContrib.IncludeHandling"/>
</configSections>
<includeHandling>
</includeHandling>
I hope this helped.
Check out the Asp.Net Ajax Minifier. http://www.asp.net/ajaxlibrary/ajaxminquickstart.ashx
It ships with a MS Build task that you can setup where on build it will find and minify Css and Js files in your project...
Here is a Unity version of the DependencyResolver setup. I did it as a Unity container extension.
public class ConfigureMvcContrib : UnityContainerExtension
{
protected override void Initialize()
{
var settings = (IIncludeHandlingSettings)ConfigurationManager.GetSection("includeHandling");
Container
.RegisterFactory<IHttpContextProvider>(c => new HttpContextProvider(HttpContext.Current))
.RegisterFactory<IIncludeReader>(c => new FileSystemIncludeReader(c.Resolve<IHttpContextProvider>()))
.RegisterType<IIncludeStorage, StaticIncludeStorage>()
.RegisterType<IKeyGenerator, KeyGenerator>()
.RegisterFactory<IIncludeCombiner, IncludeCombiner>()
.RegisterInstance<IIncludeHandlingSettings>(settings);
DependencyResolver.InitializeWith(new UnityDependencyResolver(Container));
}
}
It is worth noting that the IncludeHandling setup is not ideal for a web cluster setup as is because of the way it does caching. I had to roll my own controller action that took a list of files to combine and minify. I can provide more info if anyone is interested.

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