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diff --git a/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/index.rst b/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/index.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c518bef41b --- /dev/null +++ b/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/index.rst @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +======= +Prompts +======= + +.. toctree:: + :maxdepth: 1 + + nsIPromptService + nsIPromptService-reference + modalTypes diff --git a/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/modal-type-content.png b/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/modal-type-content.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000000..730fe7828c --- /dev/null +++ b/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/modal-type-content.png diff --git a/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/modal-type-tab.png b/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/modal-type-tab.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000000..66da8ef782 --- /dev/null +++ b/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/modal-type-tab.png diff --git a/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/modal-type-window.png b/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/modal-type-window.png Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000000..505850e8de --- /dev/null +++ b/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/modal-type-window.png diff --git a/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/modalTypes.rst b/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/modalTypes.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..1425d6832c --- /dev/null +++ b/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/modalTypes.rst @@ -0,0 +1,95 @@ +================== +Prompt Modal Types +================== + +Window Prompts +-------------- + +Window prompts are system prompts. They are clearly distinguishable from website +content and can be opened with or without a parent window. +While a window prompt is open, the parent window cannot be interacted with. +That means the user can not close the window or switch tabs. +Providing a parent window is optional, but highly encouraged. If you do not +pass a parent the implementation will try to find one or fallback to aborted +standalone window. + +**When to use**: This should be reserved for important browser-wide messages +with the intent to block any further user interaction until the message has been +read. + +**Flag**: `MODAL_TYPE_WINDOW` + +.. caution:: + + When using window prompts, make sure they can not be spawned by web content. + We've seen `cases <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1571003>`_ + of DoS attacks in the wild where websites spammed window prompts to lock up + the browser. + This prompt type should only be used when necessary and with proper rate + limiting. Most of the time, a tab prompt can be be used. + +.. figure:: modal-type-window.png + :width: 425px + :height: 230px + :alt: Screenshot of a window prompt. + + Window alert prompt + +Tab Prompts +----------- + +Tab prompts are system prompts like window prompts. As opposed to window +prompts, they are tab modal and don't steal focus from the parent window. +Multiple tab prompts cannot be shown at the same time. When opening additional +prompts, they are FIFO queued. + +When the user closes the tab or navigates to a different URI, prompts associated +with the given tab are closed. +In this case an exception will be thrown: + +.. code-block:: + + /* + Exception: prompt aborted by user + undefined:425 + */ + +**When to use**: This prompt should be used for dialogs that were caused by web +content and thus should be bound to the scope and lifetime of a specific tab, +but should still look like secure browser UI. Examples are HTTP Auth prompt or +the dialog to add a new search provider for the current website. + +**Flag**: `MODAL_TYPE_TAB` + + +.. figure:: modal-type-tab.png + :width: 425px + :height: 230px + :alt: Screenshot of a tab prompt. + + Tab alert prompt + +Content Prompts +--------------- + +Content prompts are like tab prompts, but they belong to the web content. Thus, +they are positioned in the center of the selected browser. + +**When to use**: The prompt is triggered by or as a result of an action of web +content and is **not** intended to look like secure browser UI. + +**Flag**: `MODAL_TYPE_CONTENT` + +.. figure:: modal-type-content.png + :width: 425px + :height: 230px + :alt: Screenshot of a content prompt. + + Content alert prompt + + +Disabling tab/content modal prompts +----------------------------------- +You can disable tab and content modal prompts and get back window-modal for +individual prompts by setting the `prompts.modalType.<promptName>` preference to +`3`. diff --git a/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/nsIPromptService-reference.rst b/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/nsIPromptService-reference.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..9879cd753a --- /dev/null +++ b/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/nsIPromptService-reference.rst @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +======================== +Prompt Service Reference +======================== + +This is the JSDoc from the Prompter.jsm implementation. You can find the full +interface definition in +`nsIPromptService.idl <https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/toolkit/components/windowwatcher/nsIPromptService.idl>`_. + +.. js:autoclass:: Prompter + :members: diff --git a/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/nsIPromptService.rst b/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/nsIPromptService.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..386572ef3f --- /dev/null +++ b/toolkit/components/prompts/docs/nsIPromptService.rst @@ -0,0 +1,195 @@ +============== +Prompt Service +============== + +The `nsIPromptService` provides methods for opening various types of prompts. +See the `interface documentation <nsIPromptService-reference.html>`_ for a list +of prompt types. +Every prompt method has 3 different versions: + +- **Prompt by window**: + This is considered the legacy way of prompting and only works if the window + you want to prompt for is in the same process. + Only supports window prompts. + +- **Prompt by browsing context (synchronous)**: + Use a browsing context as parent for the prompt. Works cross process from + parent and content process. + +- **Prompt by browsing context (asynchronous)**: + Returns a promise which resolves once the prompt closes. + + +The synchronous prompt methods use call by reference (XPCOM `inout` or `out`) to +return the updated prompt arguments to the caller. +When prompting async the arguments are passed in by value. Prompt results are +returned in an `nsIPropertyBag` when the Promise resolves. + + +.. note:: + If you don't provide a parent window or browsing context the prompt service + will fallback to a window prompt. + The same goes for browsing contexts of chrome windows, because there is no + clear association to a browser / tab. + + +Examples +-------- + +JavaScript Sync +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +Here is an example of opening a confirm prompt from JavaScript. We are in the +parent process and we want to show a tab prompt: + +.. code-block:: javascript + + // Get the browsing context for the currently selected tab + let browsingContext = gBrowser.selectedBrowser.browsingContext; + + // Specify prompt type, can be MODAL_TYPE_TAB, MODAL_TYPE_CONTENT, + // MODAL_TYPE_WINDOW + let modalType = Services.prompt.MODAL_TYPE_TAB; + + // Object for checkbox state to pass by reference. + let check = { value: false }; + + // Prompt synchronously and store result + let confirmed = Services.prompt.confirmCheckBC(browsingContext, modalType, + "My Title", "Hello, World!", "Check this box if you agree", check); + + // check.value now contains final checkbox state + // confirmed is a boolean which indicates whether the user pressed ok (true) + // or cancel (false) + console.debug("User checked checkbox?", check.value); + console.debug("User confirmed prompt?", confirmed); + + +JavaScript Async +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + +The same prompt as above, but called async: + +.. code-block:: javascript + + // Get the browsing context for the currently selected tab + let browsingContext = gBrowser.selectedBrowser.browsingContext; + + // Specify prompt type, can be MODAL_TYPE_TAB, MODAL_TYPE_CONTENT, + // MODAL_TYPE_WINDOW + let modalType = Services.prompt.MODAL_TYPE_TAB; + + // Note that the checkbox state variable is not an object in this case, + because we get the checkbox result via the result object. + let check = false; + + // Prompt asynchronously and await result + let propBag = await Services.prompt.asyncConfirmCheck(browsingContext, + modalType, + "My Title", + "Hello, World!", + "Check this box if you agree", + check); + + let ok = propBag.getProperty("ok"); + let checked = propBag.getProperty("checked"); + + // ok is the boolean indicating if the user clicked "ok" (true) or + // "cancel" (false). + // checked is a boolean indicating the final checkbox state + console.debug("User checked checkbox?", checked); + console.debug("User confirmed prompt?", ok); + + +C++ Sync +~~~~~~~~ + +.. code-block:: c++ + + nsCOMPtr<nsIPromptService> promptSvc = + do_GetService("@mozilla.org/prompter;1"); + + if(!promptSvc) { + // Error handling + return; + } + + // Assuming you have the browsing context as a member. + // You might need to get the browsing context from somewhere else. + BrowsingContext* bc = mBrowsingContext; + + bool ok; + bool checked = false; + + nsresult rv = promptSvc->confirmCheck(mBrowsingContext, + nsIPromptService::MODAL_TYPE_TAB, + "My Title"_ns + "Hello, World!"_ns, + "Check this box if you agree"_ns, + &checked, &ok); + + // ok is the boolean indicating if the user clicked "ok" (true) or + // "cancel" (false). + // checked is a boolean indicating the final checkbox state + +C++ Async +~~~~~~~~~ + +.. code-block:: c++ + + nsCOMPtr<nsIPromptService> promptSvc = + do_GetService("@mozilla.org/prompter;1"); + + if(!promptSvc) { + // Error handling + return; + } + + bool checked = false; + Promise* promise; + + // Assuming you have the browsing context as a member. + // You might need to get the browsing context from somewhere else. + BrowsingContext* bc = mBrowsingContext; + + // As opposed to the sync case, here we pass the checked flag by value + nsresult rv = promptSvc->confirmCheckAsync(mBrowsingContext, + nsIPromptService::MODAL_TYPE_TAB, "My Title"_ns, + "Hello, World!"_ns, + "Check this box if you agree"_ns, + checked, promise); + + // Attach a promise handler + RefPtr<PromptHandler> handler = new PromptHandler(promise); + promise->AppendNativeHandler(handler); + +Then, in your promise handler callback function: + +.. code-block:: c++ + + void PromptHandler::ResolvedCallback(JSContext* aCx, + JS::Handle<JS::Value> aValue) { + JS::Rooted<JSObject*> detailObj(aCx, &aValue.toObject()); + + // Convert the JSObject back to a property bag + nsresult rv; + nsCOMPtr<nsIPropertyBag2> propBag; + rv = UnwrapArg<nsIPropertyBag2>(aCx, detailObj, getter_AddRefs(propBag)); + if (NS_FAILED(rv)) return; + + bool ok; + bool checked; + propBag->GetPropertyAsBool(u"ok"_ns, &ok); + propBag->GetPropertyAsBool(u"checked"_ns, &checked); + + // ok is the boolean indicating if the user clicked "ok" (true) or + // "cancel" (false). + // checked is a boolean indicating the final checkbox state. + } + + + + + +For a full list of prompt methods check +`nsIPromptService reference <nsIPromptService-reference.html>`_. |