I am trying to have a function in an injected script which gets some paramaters and forwards them to the content script, which in turn forwards it to the background script. I have read Chrome extension - retrieving Gmail's original message, but applying that code does not work properly. I have the following code which is injected.
window.postToContentScript = function(cmd, payload) {
var obj = {"command": cmd, "data": payload};
console.error(obj);
document.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent('MyCustomEvent', {
detail: obj,
}));
}
When called, it logs my passed parameters to the console (so that's not an issue..). In the content script, I have the following code:
document.addEventListener("MyCustomEvent", function(e) {
console.error(e);
})
I would guess that it should actually contain an object with properties command and data, however the detail property of the event is just null. I realize that one way of approaching this is to add e.g. a hidden textarea into the document, filling that and subsequently reading it from the content script. However, this hardly seems as elegant as appending details to an event..
Any thoughts?
