[webkit-dev] InjectedBundle deprecation

[Carlos Garcia Campos]

El mié, 30-07-2025 a las 15:58 -0700, Alex Christensen escribió:
> Thanks, Carlos!
> 
> > On Jul 30, 2025, at 5:19 AM, Carlos Garcia Campos
> > <cgarcia at igalia.com> wrote:
> > 
> > El mar, 29-07-2025 a las 17:32 -0700, Alex Christensen escribió:
> > > Picking up this thread only 3 years later, we’ve made a lot of
> > > progress in this regard, and we would like to coordinate with the
> > > maintainers of the Linux APIs a little more.  Here are the main
> > > categories we’ve made progress on:
> > > 
> > > > > > JavaScript extensions
> > > 
> > > We have since released public API WKWebExtension and migrated a
> > > large
> > > amount of code to WebKit to support it.  Would a similarly shaped
> > > API
> > > meet your needs for JavaScript extensions?
> > > 
> > 
> > We really appreciate it and we are already working on exposing that
> > API. But browser extensions are not the only thing, applications
> > use
> > the JavaScriptCore API to add their own js APIs.
> We have some similar needs we haven’t come up with solutions to yet.
>  I’ve been thinking about a declarative way to inject JS APIs that
> forward calls and parameters to the UI process, but I haven’t
> implemented them yet.  Would such a thing meet the needs of current
> users of GTK’s injected bundle APIs?
> 

Sounds good, but I can't say for sure until I check how applications
are using those APIs. In any case would be happy to work together on
any solution to make sure it meet our needs. And the same for all other
injected bundle features that still need a replacement.

> > * Console messages: we removed this API but had to bring it back
> > because users requested it.
> Ah, I see in https://commits.webkit.org/259535@main .  I kind of
> created a UI process replacement
> in https://commits.webkit.org/292403@main and adopted it for
> WebKitTestRunner.  Do you think such a transition could be possible
> for your users?

Same, I would need to check in detail how apps are using the console
message API.

-- 
Carlos Garcia Campos
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