On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 7:15 AM <saschan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have started to learn about IPDL and am reading IPDL Tutorial ( > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/IPDL/Tutorial). It looks > like the document is old and needs some edits, but this is an area I'm > still learning so I want to make sure: >
Yeah, unfortunately most of this documentation was written around 2010, and it hasn't been updated to keep up with the changes that have happened in the last 9 years. Probably the most direct way to see what the current syntax is is to look at the IPDL parser code: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/ipc/ipdl/ipdl/parser.py You can look at the commit history of that file to find the bug numbers for when things were removed and maybe get some context for that. > 1. Nearly all of the examples lack explicit modifier before message names. > AFAIK messages are required to have `async` or `sync` before them since Bug > 1240871, am I right? > Yes, that is right. > > 2. The document says `rpc` shouldn't be used for general purpose but still > the example in "Subprotocols and Protocol Management" section uses it for > no explicit reason. I think it should use async instead as suggested, what > do you think? > As you found in your followup message, this was replaced with some kind of priority stuff. I don't remember the specifics. > 3. `rpc` is mainly for NPAPI per the document, but NPAPI is dead. Why do > we still need it? > NPAPI isn't dead quite yet. It is still used for Flash, which is going to be supported for at least a few more years, if I remember correctly. > Not sure this is the right place to discuss about documentations, if I > posted to a wrong one please inform me. > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
