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Message passing of Chrome Extension example
/*****************************************************************
* onMessage from the extension or tab (a content script)
*****************************************************************/
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(
function(request, sender, sendResponse) {
if (request.cmd == "any command") {
sendResponse({ result: "any response from background" });
} else {
sendResponse({ result: "error", message: `Invalid 'cmd'` });
}
// Note: Returning true is required here!
// ref: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20077487/chrome-extension-message-passing-response-not-sent
return true;
});
{
"name": "example",
"version": "0.0.1",
"description": "Chrome Extension's message passing example",
"permissions": [
"<all_urls>",
"webRequest",
"webRequestBlocking",
"background",
"activeTab"
],
"background": {
"scripts": ["background.js"]
// "persistent": false
},
"content_scripts": [{
//"matches": ["http://*/*"],
// "css": ["mystyles.css"],
"js": [
"extlib/js/jquery.min.js",
"content.js"
]
}],
"browser_action": {
"default_title": "hoge",
"default_icon": "icon.png",
"default_popup": "popup.html"
},
"manifest_version": 2,
"content_security_policy": "script-src 'self' https://ajax.googleapis.com https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/; object-src 'self'"
}
// If you want to sendMessage from any popup or content script,
// use `chrome.runtime.sendMessage()`.
// Send message to background:
chrome.runtime.sendMessage(p, function(response) {
console.log(`message from background: ${JSON.stringify(response)}`);
});
// If you want to sendMessage from tab of browser,
// use `chrome.tabs.sendMessage()`.
// Send message from active tab to background:
chrome.tabs.query({ active: true, currentWindow: true }, function(tabs) {
chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tabs[0].id, p, function(response) {
console.log(`message from background: ${JSON.stringify(response)}`);
});
});
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ranlix commented Aug 16, 2021

Hi,

If I want to send message to a window that created by runtime.windows.create from background.js, is there any way to do that?

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