Yeah, promises are catchy nowadays :)
But it's not native approach for current JavaScript (ES5) and it will be another abstraction layer which introduces an overhead. Promises are very good for big applications, where code readability/maintainability is crucial. In our device APIs case, extension JS code is simple data exchange layer and should be as fast as possible.
So I'm not convinced to introduce promises here.

NativeController sounds better.

I'm not sure we should extend "extension" interface. It's fully native (V8) implementation which doesn't hold any state. NativeController need to hold some additional data to operate. If it's not a problem we can consider how to provide additional JS API code to xwalk/extensions/renderer/xwalk_extension_module.cc



On 13.05.2015 11:45, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen wrote:
Ah looks like a nice idea.

I think you should make call() return a promise instead for handling the result. It is a common new practise and it allows chaining

I don't like the name Manager because Manager says almost nothing :-) it is in line with Controller. Would it be possible to just add this convenience to the extension object itself instead?

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 11:31 AM Rafal Galka <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

    Hello,

    Few more words about NativeManager:

    Currently each module uses JavaScript " extension" interface
    directly, to communicate with native code.
    It's very simple interface which requires wrapper implementation
    to match data between extension.postMessage() and
    extension.setMessageListener().
    NativeManager will provide common dispatching mechanism to
    simplify and unify communication.

    Example of async call via NativeManager:

    varnative_ =newxwalk.utils.NativeManager(extension);

    varargs = {
       foo:'bar'
    };
    native_.call('some_native_command',args,function(result) {
       // handle async result from native
    });

    From internal point of view NativeManager will automatically
    generate callbackId, pass it to native and invoke proper callback
    on native response (PostMessage()).

    NativeManager will provide also methods for sync calls and
    platform change listeners.

    Best regards,
    Rafal Galka


    On 13.05.2015 10:40, Kenneth Rohde Christiansen wrote:
    Could you give a bit more information. The auto JSON/string
    conversion seems fine, but I don't understand the idea of
    NativeManager

    Kenneth

    On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 12:06 PM Rafal Galka <[email protected]
    <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

        _*Description:*_
        Each Tizen extension implements message/error handling
        between JS/C++ in different ways.
        It leads to inconsistency and code redundancy both in native
        code and JS.
        Goal of this change is to provide set of tools/helpers to
        unify plugin implementations.

        *_Affected component:
        _*Tizen Extensions Crosswalk*_
        _*
        *_Related feature:
        _*JIRA: https://crosswalk-project.org/jira/browse/XWALK-4204*_

        _**_Target release:
        _*N/A*_

        _**_Implementation details:_*
        - [C++] Unified message/result handlers with automatic string
        <-> JSON conversion and error handling
        - [JS] xwalk.utils.NativeManager component for sending
        messages and receive sync/async replies
        - Changes should be backward compatible
        - One of the modules will be refactored in order to present
        improved module structure

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