Re: Promises in async methods

On Wed, Oct 5, 2016 at 9:45 PM, Kris Maglione <kmaglione@mozilla.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 04:05:08PM +0200, Sebastian Noack wrote:
>
>> As for compatibility with the existing Chrome extension API, I think that
>> won't be an issue. We could just have methods take an optional callback
>> and
>> return also promise. IMO this would make more sense than a separate
>> namespace or a new manifest option/version.
>>
>
> That's the approach that Firefox currently takes for the `browser`
> namespace, but we're likely to move to only supporting promises in that
> namespace if that's what winds up in the spec. I think that for the sake of
> simplicity and consistency, that's the approach that makes the most sense.


Nice, and I totally agree.


> One could write:
>>
>>  browser.runtime.onMessage.addListener(function(message)
>>  {
>>    if (message == "get-foo")
>>    {
>>       return browser.storage.local.get("foo").then(items => items.foo);
>>    }
>>  });
>>
>
> As it happens, this is exactly how it currently works in Firefox :)


Awesome, hopefully that makes it also into the spec.

Sebastian