MozActivityRequestHandler

Summary

The MozActivityRequestHandler interface allows apps that handle activities to access and interact with the request made by a third party app that tries to delegate an activity.

To handle activities, an application has to register a handler to the system message activity using navigator.mozSetMessageHandler(). The callback that is passed to navigator.mozSetMessageHandler() will be called with a MozActivityHandler object in parameter when the system message is of the type activity.

Be aware that you need to have returnValue: true set in your manifest file to return a result (see manifest activities for more information.) If there is no result to return, then you should just use window.close() to get rid of the handling window.

Interface overview

interface MozActivityRequestHandler
{
  readonly attribute MozActivityOptions source;

  void postResult(object result);
  void postError(DOMString error);
};

Properties

MozActivityRequestHandler.source Read only

A MozActivityOptions object containing all the information about the current activity request.

Methods

MozActivityRequestHandler.postResult()

Allows to send back a success response to the app that initiated the activity.

MozActivityRequestHandler.postError()

Allows to send back an error response to the app that initiated the activity.

Specification

Web Activities is not part of any specification. However, it has some overlap with the proposed Web Intents specification. Mozilla actually proposed Web Activities as a counter proposal to Web Intents. For more information about this, see discussion on the Web Intents Task Force ML.

See also

• navigator.mozSetMessageHandler()
• MozActivity
• MozActivityOptions
• Web Activities