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webExtension module #778
webExtension module #778
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Thanks for the PR! Quite a few comments, but this does look like it's heading in the right direction, so don't be put off :)
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ExtensionDetails = { | ||
extension: Extension, | ||
? installTemporary: bool .default true |
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I think we might be better off only supporting temporary installs at first. I don't really have an automation use case in mind where it makes sense to permanently install an extension in a specific profile, and we can always add it if there is one.
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@jgraham would a temporary install be something new defined by the webdriver bidi spec or do you already have a notion of "temporary" extensions in Firefox (I guess they auto-uninstall)?
@oliverdunk do we have something like this within extensions?
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I think having this set to false
would be the current behavior - unpacked extensions stay installed between restarts as long as you use the same profile. I can imagine how true
might work but I'm not sure I'm convinced of the value of that, at least for the MVP.
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1. Let the |extension| be the value of the <code>extension</code> field of | ||
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1. [=Try=] to install web-extension with |session| and |extension|. |
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So there's quite a few bits missing here:
- It's possible this command isn't supported, so you need to say something like "If installing |extension| isn't supported for any reason return error with error code unsupported operation".
- You need to explictly deal with the different input types, so that end up with some abstract representation of the set of files that make up the extension.
- It would probably be good to make some checks explicit here. For example if there's no
manifest.json
file in the root that should return an error. - You need to handle the other data passed in e.g. the private browsing mode flag.
- You need a bit more detail on what it means to install a web extension. It's going to be "implementation defined steps", but it should probably describe what the outcome is supposed to be. This will still need to be entirely fallible (i.e. there's a possibility of the install failing for implemenation-specific reasons), as in the current text.
FYI: There is prior context in the WECG to discuss the desired characteristics of extension loading functionality. For reference, here are the meeting notes:
Related issues: |
@jgraham thank you very much for the review. I will need a moment to unpack all comments, but sure to receive progress soon. |
Hi Krzysztof. I wanted to check back if you already had some time to distill the feedback from James. If not no worries, but let us know in case you don't have the time to continue on this PR. Thanks! |
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1. Let |path| be a value of <code>path</code> field of |install path spec| if the value of <code>type</code> of the |install path spec| is equal to <code>path</code>, | ||
otherwise perform any implementation-defined steps to create a temporary folder and make its path to be the value of |path|. | ||
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1. Let |archive path| be a value of <code>path</code> field of |install path spec| if the value of <code>type</code> of the |install path spec| is equal to <code>archive-path</code>, | ||
otherwise if the value of <code>type</code> of the |install path spec| is equal to <code>archive-path</code> perform any implementation-defined steps to create a temporary file | ||
being a result of Base64 decodeing of the value of <code>value</code> filed of |install path spec| and make its path to be the value of |archive path|, | ||
otherwise |archive path| is null. |
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I do realize this is overly complicated, but wasn't sure how to express it otherwise. Please advise.
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I'm confused by the flow of this, since each step has something along the lines of "If A do this, otherwise if A do that". I would have expected something like:
- If the type is "path", return the path.
- Otherwise, if the type is "archive-path", extract the archive and return the path to the temporary directory.
- Otherwise, if the type is "base64", decode this as a zip and return the path to the temporary directory.
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Is it better now? or you would rather remove the intermediate data structure?
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The extraction process is much clearer now, thanks - I'm happy with that as long as we are comfortable having a switch vs a series of if/else if (cc/ @jgraham). I'm still a little unclear why we need |extension files| and |extension archive|. Is there a reason for that?
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Thanks for this! It's really great to see an external contribution and it lines up nicely with our goal in the WebExtensions Community Group to write cross-browser tests for extension APIs.
I've left some feedback but please prioritize addressing anything from @jgraham who is the one with spec experience :)
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1. If |extension files| does not include entry <code>manifest.json</code> return [=error=] with code [=invalid extension=] |
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I would lean towards dropping this, and in the subsequent step having something that allows the browser to return an error if anything goes wrong. There are many ways an extension can be invalid beyond the manifest.json not being present (e.g an unsupported manifest_version
) and I don't think we want to list them all here.
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I think we could delete it; as you say there are many failure cases and we can't enumerate them all. On the other hand, it's also clear that if there isn't a manifest.json
at all the install must fail, so assuming it's not hard to specify I think checking the file exists is reasonable, and makes the spec more precise (by defining at least one case where failure is mandatory).
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1. Let |path| be a value of <code>path</code> field of |install path spec| if the value of <code>type</code> of the |install path spec| is equal to <code>path</code>, | ||
otherwise perform any implementation-defined steps to create a temporary folder and make its path to be the value of |path|. | ||
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1. Let |archive path| be a value of <code>path</code> field of |install path spec| if the value of <code>type</code> of the |install path spec| is equal to <code>archive-path</code>, | ||
otherwise if the value of <code>type</code> of the |install path spec| is equal to <code>archive-path</code> perform any implementation-defined steps to create a temporary file | ||
being a result of Base64 decodeing of the value of <code>value</code> filed of |install path spec| and make its path to be the value of |archive path|, | ||
otherwise |archive path| is null. |
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I'm confused by the flow of this, since each step has something along the lines of "If A do this, otherwise if A do that". I would have expected something like:
- If the type is "path", return the path.
- Otherwise, if the type is "archive-path", extract the archive and return the path to the temporary directory.
- Otherwise, if the type is "base64", decode this as a zip and return the path to the temporary directory.
@oliverdunk thank you for all the suggestions! Happy to contribute to WECG goals. |
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installPath: extensions.ExtensionPath / extensions.ExtensionArchivePath / extensions.ExtensionBase64Encoded, | ||
? allowPrivateBrowsing: bool .default false, |
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@oliverdunk do you know if we have an equivalent of what allowPrivateBrowsing is expressing here?
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I see, thanks! I wonder if alternatively we could specify a user context ID to install an extension to? (I would need to check if it's implementable though)
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I don't believe that per-user-context containers would be possible in the current Firefox implementation. I'd propose dropping this from the initial proposal since we don't really have the concept of private browsing exposed elsewhere in the specification.
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Maybe we then rename the property to temporary
to indicate that the extension will not be installed permanently? That also uses a name that is not tied too much to a given browser.
Btw. we also use this name for our current implementation for WebDriver classic in Firefox.
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Actually my last answer was wrong. Temporary actually means that the web extension is not persistent and can be installed even when it isn't signed (like for developers), and that is indeed a feature that we support in Firefox.
But we do not yet support the private browsing
mode installation. So both things are different.
@OrKoN How does Chrome handle the installation of unsigned web extensions?
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In Chrome, you enable "Developer Mode" with a toggle on the chrome://extensions page and then load a directory or zip file with a "Load unpacked" button. Unlike Firefox, we don't couple the concept of unsigned and temporary extensions. An unsigned extension will always persist until it is removed - just like with a signed extension.
Given that, I would be against having a temporary
property which is required for loading an unpacked extension. That is coupling two unrelated concepts.
I believe as implemented, the Extensions.loadUnpacked
CDP command would fail for a packed extension.
Given that, I wonder if we could do one of a few options:
- Scope the MVP to just unpacked extensions. We wouldn't need any additional flags.
- Have the browser autodetect packed or unpacked. We also wouldn't need any additional flags.
- Have a flag that is specifically named to decide which path we go down trying to load the extension.
For all of this, I think whether this ends up being temporary or not can be for the user-agent to decide. Let me know if I'm wrong but I don't think there is much presidence for tests that span across browser sessions? If you care about having a clean state you should be creating a new profile directory.
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In Chrome, we currently only allow installing extensions if the client is local to the browser (i.e., connected via pipes instead of the WebSocket). We could probably relax this based on a command line argument but I wonder if it makes sense to start with the extensions.ExtensionPath only?
cc @oliverdunk for additional thoughts
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Could that be managed by the webdriver? Archives (zip/crx) and Base64 strings are can effectively be unpacked to a temporary folder, and then run as from any other path.
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the driver process and the browser might not be running on the same machine so, in a general case, we probably should not handle it in the driver. I think a remote-end path to an archive or to an unpacked folder is less of a concern but installing an extension from base64 would mean writing something to the filesystem that was not present there originally.
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@OrKoN, I'm fairly certain Selenium currently supports loading an extension from base64 in WebDriver. Do you have any idea how that was implemented?
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base64 is probably the only useful format if you're trying to install things on a remote browser; in that case you might well want to specifically disallow access to filesystem paths.
It should certainly be allowed for implementations to return Unsupported operation
for any variant they don't support here.
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@OrKoN, I'm fairly certain Selenium currently supports loading an extension from base64 in WebDriver. Do you have any idea how that was implemented?
they probably decode it and unpack it to the local filesystem and provide the path as the launch arg for Chrome. I don't think they use the CDP method to install extensions at runtime.
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do we have any concerns that base64-encoded extensions could be too large for transporting as JSON over the protocol? I do not know how large is a typical extension bundle.
I think extension installation here is similar to input.setFiles which currently also supports only remote-end absolute paths.
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Extensions can be quite big. I think AdblockPlus is around 60mb while Ghostery is around 12mb.
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extension: Extension, | ||
? installTemporary: bool .default true |
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@jgraham would a temporary install be something new defined by the webdriver bidi spec or do you already have a notion of "temporary" extensions in Firefox (I guess they auto-uninstall)?
@oliverdunk do we have something like this within extensions?
My plan was to join the group and I've made a request to W3C. In result I was added to WECG group, but not to webdriver. Not sure whom to ask fix it. Can you recommend a contact? |
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thanks for details so it's different from unpacked extensions in Chrome because they persist in the profile. |
I think this link should lead to a form to join the browser testing and tools working group https://www.w3.org/groups/wg/browser-tools-testing/join |
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I think we could delete it; as you say there are many failure cases and we can't enumerate them all. On the other hand, it's also clear that if there isn't a manifest.json
at all the install must fail, so assuming it's not hard to specify I think checking the file exists is reasonable, and makes the spec more precise (by defining at least one case where failure is mandatory).
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base64 is probably the only useful format if you're trying to install things on a remote browser; in that case you might well want to specifically disallow access to filesystem paths.
It should certainly be allowed for implementations to return Unsupported operation
for any variant they don't support here.
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<dt>"<code>archive-path</code>" | ||
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1. Let |archive path| be a value of <code>path</code> field of |install path spec|. | ||
1. Perform any implementation-defined steps to extract the archive from <code>archive path</code> to a temporary directory and let |path| be the path to that temporary directory. |
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This definitely doesn't have to require a temporary directory (that is: doing this entirely in-memory should be permitted). Also this seems to allow an unbounded range of archive formats, whereas I guess we only actually want to support zip? Zip isn't well-specified afaik, so actually talking about how to decode that might be a problem (but it needs to be falliable, in case the file is invalid).
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Not quite sure how to achieve that. Can you please check the latest version to verify if I go into right direction?
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Thank you, @chrmod, for all your hard work! It's looking great, but there are a few items I'd like to discuss and see addressed. All of them can be found inline.
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1. Let |extension data spec| be a value of <code>extensionData</code> field of the |command parameters|. | ||
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1. Let |extension directory entry| be the result of [=trying=] to [=expand a extension data spec=] with |extension data spec|. |
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Should the directory entry
part reference the other spec?
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isn't it enough if |expand a extension data spec|
returns a [=directory entry=]
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@whimboo done and tests are green now. |
@jgraham can you please take a look? |
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The <code>webExtension.Extension</code> type represents a web extension id within a browser. |
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@jgraham should we actually use remote end
for all those cases instead of browser
to be consistent?
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I think remote end is marginally better, but arguably only an actual browser can have an extension. I think honestly we're not 100% consistent already (e.g. with the browser
module)
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This is nearly ready; I tried to make some fixups, but apparently you didn't grant write access to the branch so I can't. But I suggest applying the following patch:
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<dt><dfn for=errors export>no such user context</dfn>
<dd>Tried to reference an unknown [=user context=].
<dt><dfn for=errors export>no such web extension</dfn>
- <dd>Tried to interact with not installed web extension.
+ <dd>Tried to reference and unknown web extension.
<dt><dfn for=errors export>unable to close browser</dfn>
<dd>Tried to close the browser, but failed to do so.
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webExtension.Extension = text
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-The <code>webExtension.Extension</code> type represents a web extension id within a browser.
+The <code>webExtension.Extension</code> type represents a web extension id within a [=remote end=].
### Commands ### {#module-webExtension-commands}
#### The webExtension.install Command #### {#command-webExtension-install}
-The <dfn export for=commands>webExtension.install</dfn> command installs a web extension for the browser.
+The <dfn export for=commands>webExtension.install</dfn> command installs a web extension in the [=remote end=].
<dl>
<dt>Command Type</dt>
<dd>
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<dt>|type| is the string "<code>path</code>"
<dd>
1. Let |path| be |extension data spec|["<code>path</code>"].
- 1. Let |entry| be a [=directory entry=] representing the directory with that |path|.
+ 1. Let |locator| be a [=directory locator=] with [=file system locator/path=] |archive path| and [=file system locator/root=] corresponding to the root of the file system.
+ 1. Let |entry| be [=locate an entry=] given |locator|.
<dt>|type| is the string "<code>archivePath</code>"
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1. Let |archive path| be |extension data spec|["<code>path</code>"].
- 1. Perform implementation defined steps to read |bytes| from a file located at |archive path|.
+ 1. Let |locator| be a [=file locator=] with [=file system locator/path=] |archive path| and [=file system locator/root=] corresponding to the root of the file system.
+ 1. Let |archive entry| be [=locate an entry=] given |locator|.
+ 1. If |archive entry| is null, return null.
+ 1. Let |bytes| be |archive entry|'s [=file entry/binary data=].
1. Let |entry| be the result of [=trying=] to [=extract a zip archive=] given |bytes|.
<dt>|type| is the string "<code>base64</code>"
<dd>
1. Let |bytes| be [=forgiving-base64 decode=] |extension data spec|["<code>path</code>"].
1. Let |entry| be the result of [=trying=] to [=extract a zip archive=] given |bytes|.
+ 1. If |entry| is failure, return null.
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1. Return |entry|.
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1. Let |extension data spec| be |command parameters|["<code>extensionData</code>"].
1. Let |extension directory entry| be the result of [=trying=] to [=expand a web extension data spec=] with |extension data spec|.
+1. If extension directory entry| is null, return [=error=] with [=error code=] [=invalid web extension=].
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1. Perform implementation defined steps to install a web extension from |extension directory entry|. If this fails, return [=error=] with [=error code=] [=invalid web extension=]. Otherwise let |extension id| be the unique identifier of the newly installed web extension.
1. Let |result| be a [=/map=] matching the
<code>webExtension.InstallResult</code> production with the
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The [=remote end steps=] with |command parameters| are:
1. Let |extension| be |command parameters|["<code>extension</code>"].
-1. If the browser has no web extension with an id equal to |extension|, return [=error=] with [=error code=] [=no such web extension=].
+1. If the [=local end=] has no web extension with id equal to |extension|, return [=error=] with [=error code=] [=no such web extension=].
-1. Perform any implementation-defined steps to remove the web extension from the browser. If this fails, return [=error=] with [=error code=] [=unknown error=].
+1. Perform any implementation-defined steps to remove the web extension from the [=local end=]. If this fails, return [=error=] with [=error code=] [=unknown error=].
1. Return [=success=] with data null.
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I think remote end is marginally better, but arguably only an actual browser can have an extension. I think honestly we're not 100% consistent already (e.g. with the browser
module)
Should this really be |
You're quite right, it should always be |
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Also I just noticed in the base64 bit the diff should be
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@jgraham I've check github documentation and we should be able to grant you write access to ghostery fork https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/working-with-forks/allowing-changes-to-a-pull-request-branch-created-from-a-fork, but somehow I don't see that option to be available for this PR. Instead this message is shown: For this PR it probably does not make sense to investigate more, but it would be best if we make it work for the feature ones. |
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Just one cleanup, but otherwise I think we're good to go.
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Fantastic! Thank you all! |
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addresses #548
We aim to provide a capability and a command to install a web-extension in the session.
This is a pre-requisite to allow WedDriver Bidi to interact with the extension background pages and service workers.
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