[webkit-dev] WKWebView Inspector in my own app

[Joseph Pecoraro]

> On Aug 11, 2014, at 12:10 PM, Joseph Pecoraro <pecoraro at apple.com> wrote:
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>> On Aug 11, 2014, at 3:23 AM, Koen Bok <koen at madebysofa.com <mailto:koen at madebysofa.com>> wrote:
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>> I am looking how to show the inspector in my own mac desktop app with WKWebViews.
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> You are correct that currently the only supported way to inspect a WKWebView is through Safari with an entitlement in your app (see the WWDC talk for more information).
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>> I think I need to initialize an XPC or http connection to a WKWebView and pass it to a new inspector instance, and then show it.
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>> Can anyone maybe point me in the right direction?
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> From a WebKit Internals perspective, you just need to enable WebCore's Settings::developerExtrasEnabled setting to get what you want. No XPC/HTTP connections necessary.
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> The WKWebView API allows toggling WebCore's Settings via the WKPreferences interface (available on WKWebViewConfiguration).  Nothing currently exists for the developer extras setting. It should be easy to add plumbing for a new setting to toggle the Developer Extras Enabled setting at least as a private API.

I filed and put a patch up on:
<https://webkit.org/b/135811> Add Private WKPreferences API for developer extras (show inspector)

- Joe
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