How to remove event listener in Chrome extension

Question

I am trying to remove the onRequest listener added by chrome.extension.onRequest.addListener after a request is made, like this:

chrome.extension.onRequest.addListener(     function(request){         chrome.extension.onRequest.removeListener();         other_function(request);     } ); 

The problem is that I don't know if this works or not. I tried chrome.extension.onRequest.hasListener, which seems not to give the right answer, so I am wondering if there are some other ways to remove the onRequest listener or check if the listener exists or not.

Thanks!

Answer 1

removeListener takes an argument. You need to name the listener function and then remove it by name:

function doStuff(request){     chrome.extension.onRequest.removeListener(doStuff);     other_function(request); } chrome.extension.onRequest.addListener(doStuff); 

Or, more succinctly:

chrome.extension.onRequest.addListener(     function doStuff(request){         chrome.extension.onRequest.removeListener(doStuff);         other_function(request);     } ); 

Answer 2

Another simple and straight forward approach when using anonymous functions:

chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(function(msg, sender, reply) {     chrome.runtime.onMessage.removeListener(arguments.callee); });