I am writing a chrome extension but the sendResponse
method does not work.
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(
function(request, sender, sendResponse) {
if(!request.method){
return false;
}
if(request.method=='postList' && request.post_list){
// alert(1);
a_facebook_api.getPostFromDB(request.post_list, function(data){
alert(data);
sendResponse(data);
});
} else if(request.method=='postAdd' && request.post_data){
a_facebook_api.addPostToDB(request.post_data, function(data){
sendResponse(data);
});
}
return true;
}
);
chrome.runtime.sendMessage({method: "postList",post_list: post_list}, function(response) {
alert(response);
});
the function alert(data)
works. It gives me proper data with JSON format. However, the alert(response)
does not show any message. Can anyone give me some ideas why it isn't working?
Thank you in advance!
This same question Chrome Extension Message passing: response not sent will help.
You just need to add return true
on listener.
I was looking for the solution to get data from content script inside the popup. Yes, you can have it with storage, but this is applied to all tabs, so better to send message to active tab, and read response:
inside popup.js
chrome.tabs.query({
active: true,
lastFocusedWindow: true
}, function (tabs) {
chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tabs[0].id, {data: 1}, function (response) {
console.log(response.data)
});
});
inside content.js
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(function (message, sender, sendResponse) {
if (message.data === 1) {
// accepts only 1 field
sendResponse({
data: 2
});
// very important to return true
return true;
}
});
You haven't stated weather you this code is in the content script or the background page. From looking at it I assume it it part of the content script.
I tried your code in one of my own extensions and it alerted "[object Object]" which is what happens when you alert a variable that isn't a string or numerical value. If you change the alert data to "response.responseData" it will alert the value you labeled "responseData" from the background page.
As it wasn't alerting anything for you I think that the script that is listening for the message is not responding properly.
I got the code working. This is the content script:
//Document ready
window.onload = function() {
alert('Ready');
//Send a message
sendMessage();
}
//Get message from background page
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(function(request, sender, sendResponse) {
//Alert the message
alert("The message from the background page: " + request.greeting);//You have to choose which part of the response you want to display ie. request.greeting
//Construct & send a response
sendResponse({
response: "Message received"
});
});
//Send message to background page
function sendMessage() {
//Construct & send message
chrome.runtime.sendMessage({
method: "postList",
post_list: "ThePostList"
}, function(response) {
//Alert the message
alert("The response from the background page: " + response.response);//You have to choose which part of the response you want to display ie. response.response
});
}
This is the background script:
//Get message from content script
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(
function(request, sender, sendResponse) {
//Alert the message
alert('The message from the content script: ' + request.method);//You have to choose which part of the response you want to display ie. request.method
//Construct & send a response
sendResponse({
response: "Message received"
});
}
);
//Send message to content script
function sendDetails(sendData) {
//Select tab
chrome.tabs.query({active: true, currentWindow: true}, function(tabs) {
//Construct & send message
chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tabs[0].id, {
greeting: sendData
}, function(response) {
//On response alert the response
alert("The response from the content script: " + response.response);//You have to choose which part of the response you want to display ie. response.response
});
});
}
Every time a script receives a message you have to use the "sendResponse" function to send a response.
Hope this helped.
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