Comments on: Services.jsm

By: Taras’ Blog » Blog Archive » mozilla::services

Taras’ Blog » Blog Archive » mozilla::services — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:20:12 +0000

[...] landed the mozilla::services bug around the same time as Gavin announced the Services.jsm equivalent. Services.jsm came a pleasant surprise to me, it’s nice to have [...]

By: Gavin’s blog » browser.js cleanup ideas

Gavin’s blog » browser.js cleanup ideas — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:01:42 +0000

[...] it up has been brought up several times in the past. We have made some changes that help – Services.jsm landed recently and helps reduce some of the XPCOM boilerplate overhead (though there’s a [...]

By: Home of KaiRo: Weekly Status Report, W08/2010

Home of KaiRo: Weekly Status Report, W08/2010 — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:37:08 +0000

[...] pass of that but needs some answers from places developers as well to get in.Services.jsm: Gavin introduced Services.jsm to toolkit this week, and as I think this is a very welcome improvement for reducing code [...]

By: AndersH

AndersH — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:23:27 +0000

Sorry, I overlooked the “appshell” part. And doing something like …appshell$windowMediator() will probably be to long.

By: AndersH

AndersH — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:37:31 +0000

Would it be silly to use something like __noSuchMethod__ to add the shorthand for all (or most) classes at once. Also this way the new names are guessable and documented since they are the same as the old. Pseudo-code (I hope it doesn’t turn up to garbled):

var Services = {
__noSuchMethod__: function(id, args) {
var cName = id.replace(/([A-Z])/, “-$1″).toLowerCase();
var iName = “nsI” + id.substring(0, 1).toUpperCase() + id.substring(1);
var c = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/" + cName + ";1'];
var i = Components.interfaces[iName];
return c.getService(i);
}
}

function getTopWin() {
return Services.windowMediator().getMostRecentWindow(“navigator:browser”);
}

By: Robert Kaiser

Robert Kaiser — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:28:11 +0000

Gavin already knows, but for any other readers I’d like to point out that 1) this is in toolkit so any Mozilla application can use it and 2) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548715 is working on starting to use it in SeaMonkey.

By: glandium

glandium — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:23:07 +0000

Finally !