Why Won't this Clipboard Code Pass Mozilla Validation? - firefox-addon

Salve! When I try Mozilla's Validator on my addon, it get the following error related to my treatment of clipboard usage:
nsITransferable has been changed in Gecko 16.
Warning: The nsITransferable interface has changed to better support
Private Browsing Mode. After instantiating the object, you should call
the init function on it before any other functions are called.
See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Using_the_Clipboard for more
information.
var trans = Components.classes["#mozilla.org/widget/transferable;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsITransferable);
if ('init' in trans){ trans.init(null);};
I can't understand this.
Here is my code - I am clearly calling trans.init:
var clip = Components.classes["#mozilla.org/widget/clipboard;1"].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIClipboard);
if (!clip) return "";
var trans = Components.classes["#mozilla.org/widget/transferable;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsITransferable);
if ('init' in trans){ trans.init(null);}; //<--IT DOESN'T LIKE THIS
if (!trans) return false;
trans.addDataFlavor("text/unicode");
I've also tried the Transferable function from Mozilla's example here, but get the same non-validation report.
One of the Mozilla AMO editors told me to write exactly this, and it still doesn't validate.
I've also tried, simply:
var trans = Components.classes["#mozilla.org/widget/transferable;1"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsITransferable);
trans.init(null); //<---LOOK HERE
if (!trans) return false;
trans.addDataFlavor("text/unicode");
The Validator does not report any errors - just this warning. Everything works properly. Mozilla updated their Gecko engine, and they want devlopers to match up to the new standard.
In my usage, we want to be able to use the contents of the clipboard that was probably gotten from outside the application, too, so we do want to call the init function with null instead of window.
Any advice would be wonderful!

trans.init(null) is valid in some circumstances, such as yours. It can also cause privacy leaks if used in the wrong circumstances, so the validator flags all uses of it as potentially requiring changing. Therefore, it is a warning that you can ignore in this case.

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firefox addon webrequest.addListener misbehaving

I want to examine http requests in an extension for firefox. To begin figuring out how to do what I want to do I figured I'd just log everything and see what comes up:
webRequest.onResponseStarted.addListener(
(stuff) => {console.log(stuff);},
{urls: [/^.*$/]}
);
The domain is insignificant, and I know the regex works, verified in the console. When running this code I get no logging. When I take out the filter parameter I get every request:
webRequest.onResponseStarted.addListener(
(stuff) => {console.log(stuff);}
);
Cool, I'm probably doing something wrong, but I can't see what.
Another approach is to manually filter on my own:
var webRequest = Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/WebRequest.jsm", {});
var makeRequest = function(type) {
webRequest[type].addListener(
(stuff) => {
console.log(!stuff.url.match(/google.com.*/));
if(!stuff.url.match(/google.com.*/))
return;
console.log(type);
console.log(stuff);
}
);
}
makeRequest("onBeforeRequest");
makeRequest("onBeforeSentHeaders");
makeRequest("onSendHeaders");
makeRequest("onHeadersReceived");
makeRequest("onResponseStarted");
makeRequest("onCompleted");
With the console.log above the if, I can see the regex returning true when I want it to and the code making it past the if. When I remove the console.log above the if the if no longer gets executed.
My question is then, how do I get the filtering parameter to work or if that is indeed broken, how can I get the code past the if to be executed? Obviously, this is a fire hose, and to begin searching for a solution I will need to reduce the data.
Thanks
urls must be a string or an array of match patterns. Regular expressions are not supported.
WebRequest.jsm uses resource://gre/modules/MatchPattern.jsm. Someone might get confused with the util/match-pattern add-on sdk api, which does support regular expressions.

Prestashop all translatable-field display none for product page

Just new in Prestashop (1.6.0.6), I've a problem with my product page in admin. All translatable-field are to display:none (I inspect the code with chrome).
So when I want to create a new product I can't because the name field is required.
I thought that it was simple to find the .js whose do that but it isn't.
If somebody could help me, I would be happy.
Thank you for your help
Hi,
I make some searches and see that the function hideOtherLanguage(id) hide and show translatable-field element.
function hideOtherLanguage(id)
{
console.log(id_language);
$('.translatable-field').hide();
$('.lang-' + id).show();
var id_old_language = id_language;
id_language = id;
if (id_old_language != id)
changeEmployeeLanguage();
updateCurrentText();
}
When I set the Id to 1 (default language), it works. It seems that when I load the page, the function is called twice and the last calling, the id value is undefined. So the show() function will not work.
If somebody could help me. Thank you.
In my console, I see only one error
undefined is not a function.
under index.php / Line 1002
...
$("#product_form").validate({
...
But I find the form.tpl template and set this lines in comment but nothing change.
EDIT: According to comment on this link http://forge.prestashop.com/browse/PSCFV-2928 this can possibly be caused by corrupted installation file(s) - so when on clean install - try to re-download and reinstall...
...otherwise:
I got into a similar problem - in module admin page, when creating configuration form using PrestaShop's HelperForm. I will provide most probable cases and their possible solutions.
The solution for HelperForm was tested on PS 1.6.0.14
Generally there are 2 cases when this will happen.
First, you have to check what html you recieve.
=> Display source code - NOT in developer tools/firebug/etc...!
=> I really mean the pure recieved (JavaScript untouched) html.
Check if your translatable-fields have already the inline style "display: none":
Case 1 - fields already have inline style(s) for "display: none"
This means the template/html was already prepared this way - most probably in some TPL file I saw codes similar to these:
<div class="translatable-field lang-{$language.id_lang}"
{if $language.id_lang != $id_lang_default}style="display:none"{/if}>
Or particularly in HelperForm template:
<div class="translatable-field lang-{$language.id_lang}"
{if $language.id_lang != $defaultFormLanguage}style="display:none"{/if}>
Case 1 is the most easy to solve, you just have to find, where to set this default language.
Solutions
HelperForm
Look where you've (or someone else) prepared the HelperForm object - something like:
$formHelper = new HelperForm();
...
Somewhere there will be something like $formHelper->default_form_language = ...;
My wrong first solution was to get default form language from context - which might not be set:
$this->context->controller->default_form_language; //THIS IS WRONG!
The correct way is to get the default language from configuration - something like:
$default_lang = new Language((int)Configuration::get('PS_LANG_DEFAULT'));
$formHelper->default_form_language = $default_lang->id;
...this particularly solved my problem...
Other form-creations
If there is something else than HelperForm used for form creations, the problem is still very similar.
You have to find where in files(probably tpls) is a condition for printing display:none for your case - then find where is the check-against-variable set and set it correctly yourself.
Case 2 - fields don't have inline style(s) for "display: none"
This means it is done after loading HTML by JavaScript. There are two options:
There is a call for hideOtherLanguage(), but there is wrongly set input language - that means no language will be displayed and all hidden.Solution for this one can be often solved by solving Case 1 (see above). In addition there can be programming error in not setting the after-used language id variable at all... then you would have to set it yourself (assign in JavaScript).
Some script calls some sort of .hide() on .translatable-field - you will have to search for it the hard way and remove/comment it out.
PS: Of course you can set the language to whatever you want, it is just common to set it to default language, because it is the most easier and the most clear way how to set it.

API to modify Firefox downloads list

I am looking to write a small firefox add-on that detects when files that were downloaded are (or have been) deleted locally and removes the corresponding entry in the firefox download list.
Can anybody point me to the relevant api to manipulate the download list? I cannot seem to find it.
The relevant API is PlacesUtils which abstracts the complexity of the Places database.
If your code runs in the context of a chrome window then you get a PlacesUtils glabal variable for free. Otherwise (bootstrapped, Add-on SDK, whatever) you have to import PlacesUtils.jsm.
Cu.import("resource://gre/modules/PlacesUtils.jsm");
As far as Places is concerned, downloaded files are nothing more than a special kind of visited pages, annotated accordingly. It's a matter of just one line of code to get an array of all downloaded files.
var results = PlacesUtils.annotations.getAnnotationsWithName("downloads/destinationFileURI");
Since we asked for the destinationFileURI annotation, each element of the resultarray holds the download location in the annotationValue property as a file: URI spec string.
With that you can check if the file actually exists
function getFileFromURIspec(fileurispec){
// if Services is not available in your context Cu.import("resource://gre/modules/Services.jsm");
var filehandler = Services.io.getProtocolHandler("file").QueryInterface(Ci.nsIFileProtocolHandler);
try{
return filehandler.getFileFromURLSpec(fileurispec);
}
catch(e){
return null;
}
}
getFileFromURIspec will return an instance of nsIFile, or null if the spec is invalid which shouldn't happen in this case but a sanity check never hurts. With that you can call the exists() method and if it returns false then the associated page entry in Places is eligible for removal. We can tell which is that page by its uri, which conveniently is also a property of each element of the results.
PlacesUtils.bhistory.removePage(result.uri);
To sum it up
var results = PlacesUtils.annotations.getAnnotationsWithName("downloads/destinationFileURI");
results.forEach(function(result){
var file = getFileFromURIspec(result.annotationValue);
if(!file){
// I don't know how you should treat this edge case
// ask the user, just log, remove, some combination?
}
else if(!file.exists()){
PlacesUtils.bhistory.removePage(result.uri);
}
});

Difference between Msxml2.DOMDocument and Msxml2.XMLHTTP

What is the difference between:
Msxml2.DOMDocument
Msxml2.XMLHTTP
? And of course, the other question is which one will work best for my purpose as described below?
The context is this - I have code that makes many calls to retrieve web pages. I am looking for the most efficient object for this task. For example, something like this:
Dim oXmlHttp : Set oXmlHttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
oXmlHttp.Open "GET", sUri, False
oXmlHttp.Send
If Err Then
getWebPage = "ERROR - could not get the source text of the webpage."
Exit Function
End If
sResponse = oXmlHttp.responseBody
This seems to work the same way if I create an object using:
Dim oXmlHttp : Set oXmlHttp = CreateObject("MSXML2.XMLHTTP")
Can anyone explain or point me to a reference that clearly outlines the differences (and intended usages) for each of those?
If you want to learn more about MSXML, these links may help:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa468547.aspx
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms766487(v=vs.85).aspx
In short, XMLHTTP is used to retrieve information, while DOMDocument is used to structure and parse it.
This page explains it better: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms760218(v=vs.85).aspx
DOMDocument "Represents the top node of the XML DOM tree." while XMLHTTP "Provides client-side protocol support for communication with HTTP servers."

Using go-html-transform to preprocess HTML: Replace fails

Following on from this question on whitelisting HTML tags, I've been experimenting with Jeremy Wall's go-html-transform. In the hopes of improving searchable documentation I'm asking this here rather than pestering the author directly... hopefully this isn't too tool-specific for SO.
App Engine, latest SDK. Post.Body is a []byte. This works:
package posts
import (
// ...
"html/template"
"code.google.com/p/go-html-transform/html/transform"
"code.google.com/p/go-html-transform/h5"
)
// ...
// Pre-process post body, then return it to the template as HTML()
// to avoid html/template's escaping allowable tags
func (p *Post) BodyHTML() template.HTML {
doc, _ := transform.NewDoc(string(p.Body))
t := transform.NewTransform(doc)
// Add some text to the end of any <strong></strong> nodes.
t.Apply(transform.AppendChildren(h5.Text("<em>Foo</em>")), "strong")
return template.HTML(t.String())
}
Result:
<strong>Blarg.<em>Foo</em></strong>
However, if instead of AppendChildren() I use something like the following:
t.Apply(transform.Replace(h5.Text("<em>Foo</em>")), "strong")
I get an internal server error. Have I misunderstood the use of Replace()? The existing documentation suggests this sort of thing should be possible.
Running your transform code outside of App Engine, it panics and you can see a TODO in the source at that point. Then it's not too much harder to read the code and see that it's going to panic if given a root node.

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