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management.getPermissionWarningsByManifest()

When the user installs or upgrades an add-on, the browser may warn the user about any particularly powerful permissions that the add-on has requested. Not all permissions result in warnings, and this behavior is not standardised across browsers.
 

Given the text of a manifest.json file, this function returns the permission warnings that would be given for the resulting add-on, as an array of strings.

This API does not require the "management" API permission.

Syntax

chrome.management.getPermissionWarningsByManifest(
  manifestString,      // string
  function(info) {...} // function
)

This API is also available as browser.management.getPermissionWarningsByManifest() in a version that returns a promise.

Parameters

manifestString
string. String containing the manifest file. This must be a valid manifest: for example, it must contain all the mandatory manifest keys.
callbackOptional
function. The function is passed the following arguments:
permissionWarnings
An array of strings, each of which contains the text of a permission warning.

Browser compatibility

Chrome Edge Firefox Firefox for Android Opera
Basic support Yes No No No Yes

Examples

Log the permission warnings for the given manifest file:

var manifest = {
  "manifest_version": 2,
  "name": "test",
  "version": "1.0",
  "permissions": ["management", "<all_urls>"]
}

var manifestString = JSON.stringify(manifest);

function gotWarnings(warnings) {
  if (chrome.runtime.lastError) {
    console.log(chrome.runtime.lastError);
  } else {
    console.log(warnings);
  }
}

chrome.management.getPermissionWarningsByManifest(manifestString, gotWarnings);

Acknowledgements

This API is based on Chromium's chrome.management API. This documentation is derived from management.json in the Chromium code.

Microsoft Edge compatibility data is supplied by Microsoft Corporation and is included here under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License.

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