Is 'previewUrl' and absolute or relative url? If relative it will be interpreted as relative the base url of page/worker. Are the worker and page located in different directories?
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:19 AM, dviner <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > Can ResourceStores be shared among workers? > > I have a main script which stores information into a ResourceStore for > temporary storage. Later, I want to use a worker to access that entry > in the ResourceStore in order to upload it to a remote server. When a > worker attempts to retrieve the data from the ResourceStore, it is > unable to access that information. More specifically, the code that > I'm using looks as follows (I've redacted a bunch of error checking to > make it more manageable). > > (main program) > localServer = google.gears.factory.create('beta.localserver'); > store = localServer.createStore('tester'); > store.captureBlob(blob, previewUrl); > > (then later in the worker process) > localServer = google.gears.factory.create('beta.localserver'); > store = localServer.createStore('tester'); > blob = store.getAsBlob(previewUrl); > > The worker process' call to store.getAsBlob always throws an > exception. > > When the identical functions are called from within one javascript > program (i.e., without any workerpool usage), it works as expected. > In addition, debugging shows that the value of 'previewUrl' has the > same value in the main process and the worker process. So, I'm fairly > confident that this issue is directly related to the Store itself. > > For what it's worth, I also tried passing the store itself from the > main program to the worker program in a message. However, Firefox > threw an error saying that the Gears module could not be marshaled. > > Is there a way for workers and the main program to share information > within a ResourceStore? > > Thanks > Dave Viner >
