Bug 111245 – Add API to allow WK2 clients to query the list of installed plug-ins.

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: FIXED
• Component: WebKit2

[Jer Noble]

Add API to allow WK2 clients to query the list of installed plug-ins.

[Jer Noble]

Created attachment 191107 [details]
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[Jon Lee]

<rdar://problem/13329717>

[Maciej Stachowiak]

Comment on attachment 191107 [details]
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r=me

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

From past experience, loading plugins is known to be a very expensive operation. Shouldn't this API be asynchronous, returning the answer in a callback?

[Jer Noble]

The handling of this call occurs entirely within the UIProcess.  Unless we wanted to marshal the request on another thread, what would the point of a callback be?

[Brady Eidson]

Comment on attachment 191107 [details]
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Indeed.  PluginInfoStore::plugins() potentially does all sorts of heavy handed i/o.  I'm going to go so far as to change this to an r- until Jer can convince us it's okay to be synchronous.

[Brady Eidson]

(In reply to comment #5)
> The handling of this call occurs entirely within the UIProcess.  Unless we wanted to marshal the request on another thread, what would the point of a callback be?

When will this new API be called?

Have you explored marshaling to another thread?

[Jer Noble]

Created attachment 191283 [details]
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[kov's GTK+ EWS bot]

Comment on attachment 191283 [details]
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Attachment 191283 [details] did not pass gtk-ews (gtk):
Output: http://webkit-commit-queue.appspot.com/results/16967063

[Brady Eidson]

Comment on attachment 191283 [details]
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View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=191283&action=review

> Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/C/WKContext.h:52
>      WKContextPlugInAutoStartOriginHashesChangedCallback                 plugInAutoStartOriginHashesChanged;
>      WKContextNetworkProcessDidCrashCallback                             networkProcessDidCrash;
> +    WKContextPlugInInformationAvailableCallback                         plugInInformationAvailable;

Please add a // Version 1 comment before the new callback.  See WKPage.h for the loaderclient and uiclient for examples.

[Jer Noble]

Created attachment 191289 [details]
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[Alexey Proskuryakov]

Comment on attachment 191289 [details]
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View in context: https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=191289&action=review

> Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/API/C/WKContext.h:56
> +    WKContextPlugInInformationAvailableCallback                         plugInInformationAvailable;

Maybe plugInInformationBecameAvailable or plugInInformationLoaded?

> Source/WebKit2/UIProcess/Plugins/PluginInfoStore.h:41
> +class PluginInfoStoreClient {

It would be nice to put this in a separate file. PluginInfoStore.h has data and includes a client is unlikely to ever care about, yet it currently has to include the whole thing to implement PluginInfoStoreClient interface.

Not such a big deal, since there is only one client that's already huge.

[Jer Noble]

Committed r144672: <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/144672>