Re: Webkit2 porting

[Robert Schroll <rschroll gmail com>]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 10:17 PM, Michael Catanzaro 
<mcatanzaro gnome org> wrote:
> Anyway, Robert and I spent yesterday morning learning how to get a 
> very
> simple example of UI process <-> web extension IPC working via D-Bus.
> (Well, mostly working: Robert discovered today that our example D-Bus
> signal is broken....) The plan was for him to publish the code on 
> GitHub
> soon.

I've put the example up on Github: 
https://github.com/rschroll/webkitdom.  The README could use some work 
explaining what's going on, but it's late and I'm tired.  In short, the 
master branch shows how things used to work with the old API, and the 
javascript and extension branches show two ways to get things to work 
with the new API.  The javascript method is a bit simpler, but may not 
scale (and requires javascript); the extension uses the web extension 
with IPC over DBus.  This latter example isn't working with DOM events, 
as I can't figure out how to use 
WebKit.DOM.EventTarget.add_event_listener_with_closure() from Vala.  
Any help here appreciated.

(Michael, though the code doesn't demonstrate it, signaling from the 
Server back into the UI process is working in this example, despite it 
not working in your example.  Dunno why.)

I'll try to clean up the explanations a bit.  I appreciate any feedback 
and corrections y'all can give.

Thanks,
Robert