Well, you can put there a set of IFs and load other functions that will
actually do whatever you want.
There is no nice way of doing it, sorry.
☆PhistucK
On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 19:37, FractalBob <ruom...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your suggestion, PhistucK. It helps but it's not quite
> there. The problem is that I need to handle several responses, so in
> GetResponseAndAct() I need to determine which response I'm receiving,
> store it in a variable and move the server declaration outside the
> function. How do I interrogate GetResponseAndAct for the response?
>
> On Dec 30, 4:04 am, PhistucK <phist...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yes, everything is asynchronous.
> >
> > You have sent a request. The response will not be received immediately.
> > You put a "return" in the function you have assigned to the callback, it
> > returns this value to... nothing.
> >
> > What you should do, is something like that -
> > function GetResponseAndAct(Response)
> > {
> > var server = "https://"; + Response.hostname + ":" + Response.port;}
> >
> > function getHostParm(parm)
> > {
> > chrome.extension.sendRequest({name: parm}, GetResponseAndAct)}
> >
> > getHostParm("hostname");
> >
> > ☆PhistucK
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 10:27, FractalBob <ruom...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> >
> > > I thought I had this problem licked in my last extension. And I did.
> > > But now it's happening again and I don't see how this context is any
> > > different from the last.
> >
> > > The following code, in the content script, is sending a couple of
> > > requests to background.html for data in local storage:
> >
> > > background.html waits for requests:
> >
> > > //Wait for request for the host name, port, e-mail address and
> > > password from content script
> > > chrome.extension.onRequest.addListener(
> > > function(request, sender, sendResponse)
> > > {
> > > if (request.name == "hostname")
> > > {
> > > sendResponse({hostname: localStorage["hostname"]});
> > > }
> > > if (request.name == "port")
> > > {
> > > sendResponse({port: localStorage["port"]});
> > > }
> > > if (request.name == "passwd")
> > > {
> > > sendResponse({passwd: localStorage["passwd"]});
> > > }
> > > if (request.name == "email_addr")
> > > {
> > > sendResponse({email_addr: localStorage["email_addr"]});
> > > }
> > > }
> > > );
> >
> > > However, when I ran the debugger, it seemed that getHostParm()
> > > completed before the listener could respond. In any case, getHostParm
> > > () returns "undefined". I know the requested data is on disk, because
> > > it's part of my options processing and I know that works. Anyone have
> > > any ideas?
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