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Add @grant metadata #1425

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arantius opened this issue Sep 23, 2011 · 3 comments
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Add @grant metadata #1425

arantius opened this issue Sep 23, 2011 · 3 comments
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@arantius
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There should be a metadata imperative like @grant that would grant access to special APIs.

A value of @grant none would mean that the script has no special API access, and will instead execute within the content scope.

Any other value provided to @grant would run the script in legacy (sandbox / wrappers) mode, with only the named APIs provided. This imperative can be repeated as many times as necessary to request access to all necessary functions.

If a script has no @grant at all, at install time, it and its @requires will be scanned for implied APIs. The appropriate @grants to provide the discovered APIs will be implicitly provided.

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johan commented Sep 23, 2011

The implication that an explicit @grant none makes all undeclared GM_* identifiers used in the script (or its @require files) syntax errors sounds good.

I could see surfacing @grant status (mostly the boolean "none" vs "some", and maybe also vs "undeclared") in the script list at some point too, as a dev / power user aid.

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The implication that an explicit @grant none makes all undeclared GM_* identifiers used in the script (or its @require files) syntax errors sounds good.

Well, today they're all functions, and they would be undefined, so calling undefined will be a syntax error without us doing anything.

arantius pushed a commit to arantius/greasemonkey that referenced this issue May 22, 2012
arantius pushed a commit to arantius/greasemonkey that referenced this issue May 22, 2012
arantius pushed a commit to arantius/greasemonkey that referenced this issue May 22, 2012
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This seems to be working.

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