Google Maps from Firefox addon (without SDK) - google-maps-api-3

I need to add a map in my adddon and I know how to do what I need in a "common webpage", like I did here: http://jsfiddle.net/hCymP/6/
The problem is I really don't know how to to the same in a Firefox Addon. I tryed importing the scripts with LoadSubScript and also tryed adding a chrome html with the next line:
<script src="https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.exp&sensor=false"></script>
But nothing works. The best solution I found was to add part of the code in this file (the code of the script src) in my function, to import this file with loadSubScript, and all my function is executed but an empty div is returned.
Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/Services.jsm");
window.google = {};
window.google.maps = {};
window.google.maps.modules = {};
var modules = window.google.maps.modules;
var loadScriptTime = (new window.Date).getTime();
window.google.maps.__gjsload__ = function(name, text) { modules[name] = text;};
window.google.maps.Load = function(apiLoad) {
delete window.google.maps.Load;
apiLoad([0.009999999776482582,[[["https://mts0.googleapis.com/vt?lyrs=m#227000000\u0026src=api\u0026hl=en-US\u0026","https://mts1.googleapis.com/vt?lyrs=m#227000000\u0026src=api\u0026hl=en-US\u0026"],null,null,null,null,"m#227000000"],[["https://khms0.googleapis.com/kh?v=134\u0026hl=en-US\u0026","https://khms1.googleapis.com/kh?v=134\u0026hl=en-US\u0026"],null,null,null,1,"134"],[["https://mts0.googleapis.com/vt?lyrs=h#227000000\u0026src=api\u0026hl=en-US\u0026","https://mts1.googleapis.com/vt?lyrs=h#227000000\u0026src=api\u0026hl=en-US\u0026"],null,null,null,null,"h#227000000"],[["https://mts0.googleapis.com/vt?lyrs=t#131,r#227000000\u0026src=api\u0026hl=en-US\u0026","https://mts1.googleapis.com/vt?lyrs=t#131,r#227000000\u0026src=api\u0026hl=en-US\u0026"],null,null,null,null,"t#131,r#227000000"],null,null,[["https://cbks0.googleapis.com/cbk?","https://cbks1.googleapis.com/cbk?"]],[["https://khms0.googleapis.com/kh?v=80\u0026hl=en-US\u0026","https://khms1.googleapis.com/kh?v=80\u0026hl=en-US\u0026"],null,null,null,null,"80"],[["https://mts0.googleapis.com/mapslt?hl=en-US\u0026","https://mts1.googleapis.com/mapslt?hl=en-US\u0026"]],[["https://mts0.googleapis.com/mapslt/ft?hl=en-US\u0026","https://mts1.googleapis.com/mapslt/ft?hl=en-US\u0026"]],[["https://mts0.googleapis.com/vt?hl=en-US\u0026","https://mts1.googleapis.com/vt?hl=en-US\u0026"]],[["https://mts0.googleapis.com/mapslt/loom?hl=en-US\u0026","https://mts1.googleapis.com/mapslt/loom?hl=en-US\u0026"]],[["https://mts0.googleapis.com/mapslt?hl=en-US\u0026","https://mts1.googleapis.com/mapslt?hl=en-US\u0026"]],[["https://mts0.googleapis.com/mapslt/ft?hl=en-US\u0026","https://mts1.googleapis.com/mapslt/ft?hl=en-US\u0026"]]],["en-US","US",null,0,null,null,"https://maps.gstatic.com/mapfiles/","https://csi.gstatic.com","https://maps.googleapis.com","https://maps.googleapis.com"],["https://maps.gstatic.com/intl/en_us/mapfiles/api-3/13/11","3.13.11"],[3047554353],1.0,null,null,null,null,1,"",null,null,1,"https://khms.googleapis.com/mz?v=134\u0026",null,"https://earthbuilder.googleapis.com","https://earthbuilder.googleapis.com",null,"https://mts.googleapis.com/vt/icon"], loadScriptTime);
};
//I can't use document.write but use loadSubScript insthead
Services.scriptloader.loadSubScript("chrome://googleMaps/content/Google-Maps-V3.js", window, "utf8"); //chrome://MoWA/content/Google-Maps-V3.js", window, "utf8");
var mapContainer = window.content.document.createElement('canvas');
mapContainer.setAttribute('id', "map");
mapContainer.setAttribute('style',"width: 500px; height: 300px");
mapContainer.style.backgroundColor = "red";
var mapOptions = {
center: new window.google.maps.LatLng(latitude, longitude),
zoom: 5,
mapTypeId: window.google.maps.MapTypeId.ROADMAP
}
var map = new window.google.maps.Map(mapContainer,mapOptions);
return mapContainer;
Can you help me? I'm developing a "Firefox for Android" addon and that's why I need to do things like *window.content.*document.createElement because document is not declared, only window and I think thats may be the problem... But I can't declare everything if I don't know what Google Maps uses.
Added: I also read that Google Maps API Team has specific code that disallows you from copying the main script locally. In particular, that code "expires" every so many hours. I'm combined part of this script: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/js?v=3.exp&sensor=false because I can't execute this directly (Error: write called on an object that does not implement interface HTMLDocument). So I don't have any alternative!

Use an iframe (type=content if in XUL) to display web content. There you can include whatever scripts you like. The content in the iframe will not have any special privileges, or at least should not. If you need to communicate with the privileged add-on part of your code, you can use e.g. regular HTML events (createEvent, addEventListener and friends) or the postMessage web API to pass messages.
Do not try to load remote code directly into other pages, or worse, into the browser, as this is a compatibility and security nightmare.
Because loading remote code and/or code not properly reviewed for running in a privileged context, the platform will refuse to load such scripts from remote sources (http, etc.) via loadSubScript, etc.
Should be noted, that if you'd later like to host your add-on on addons.mozilla.org and still do include remote scripts in privileged code, your add-on will be rejected until you fix it.
Also, mozilla might blocklist your add-on even if you host elsewhere if it is discovered that there are known security vulnerabilities in your add-on, per the Add-on Guidelines.

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Reading JS library from CDN within Mirth

I'm doing some testing around Mirth-Connect. I have a test channel that the datatypes are Raw for the source and one destination. The destination is not doing anything right now. In the source, the connector type is JavaScript Reader, and the code is doing the following...
var url = new java.net.URL('https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.15/lodash.fp.min.js');
var conn = url.openConnection();
conn.setRequestMethod('GET');
if(conn.getResponseCode() === 200) {
var body = org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.toString(conn.getInputStream(), 'UTF-8');
logger.debug('CONTENT: ' + body);
globalMap.put('_', body);
}
conn.disconnect();
// This code is in source but also tested in destination
logger.debug('FROM GLOBAL: ' + $('_')); // library was found
var arr = [1, 2, 3, 4];
var _ = $('_');
var newArr = _.chunk(arr, 2);
The error I'm getting is: TypeError: Cannot find function chunk in object.
The reason I want to do this is to build custom/internal libraries with unit test and serve them with an internal/company CDN and allow Mirth to consume them.
How can I make the library available to Mirth?
Rhino actually has commonjs support, but mirth doesn't have it enabled by default. Here's how you can use it in your channel.
channel deploy script
with (JavaImporter(
org.mozilla.javascript.Context,
org.mozilla.javascript.commonjs.module.Require,
org.mozilla.javascript.commonjs.module.provider.SoftCachingModuleScriptProvider,
org.mozilla.javascript.commonjs.module.provider.UrlModuleSourceProvider,
java.net.URI
)) {
var require = new Require(
Context.getCurrentContext(),
this,
new SoftCachingModuleScriptProvider(new UrlModuleSourceProvider([
// Search path. You can add multiple URIs to this array
new URI('https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/lodash.js/4.17.15/')
],null)),
null,
null,
true
);
} // end JavaImporter
var _ = require('lodash.min');
require('lodash.fp.min')(_); // convert lodash to fp
$gc('_', _);
Note: There's something funky with the cdnjs lodash fp packages that don't detect the environment correctly and force that weird two stage import. If you use https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/lodash#4.17.15/ instead you only need to do var _ = require('fp'); and it loads everything in one step.
transformer
var _ = $gc('_');
logger.info(JSON.stringify(_.chunk(2)([1,2,3,4])));
Note: This is the correct way to use fp/chunk. In your OP you were calling with the standard chunk syntax.
Additional Commentary
I think it's probably ok to do it this way where you download the library once at deploy time and store it in the globalChannelMap, then retrieve it from the map where needed. It would probably also work to store the require object itself in the map if you wanted to call it elsewhere. It will cache and reuse the object created for future calls to the same resource.
I would not create new Require objects anywhere but the deploy script, or you will be redownloading the resource on every message (or every poll in the case of a Javascript Reader.)
Edit: I guess for an internal webhost, this could be desirable in a Javascript Reader if you intend for it to pick up changes immediately on the next poll without a redeploy, assuming you would be upgrading the library in place instead of incrementing a version
The benefit to using Code Templates, as Vibin suggested is that they get compiled directly into your channel at deploy time and there is no additional fetching step at runtime. Making the library available is as simple as assigning it to your channel.
Even though importing third party libraries could be an option, I was actually looking into this for our team to write our own custom functions, write unit-test for them, and lastly be able to pull that code inside Mirth. I was experimenting with lodash but it was not my end goal to use it, it is. My solution was to do a REST GET call with java in the global script. Your URL would be the GitHub raw URL of the code you want to pull in. Same code of my original question but like I said, the URL is the raw GitHub URL for the function I want to pull in.

Xamarin Forms Maps Geocoder Not Working on UWP Device

My app uses Xamarin.Forms.Maps to display a map and also for geocoding. The map is displayed on a separate page when the user navigates to it from the main page. I use the geocoder to reverse geocode the current location so that I have the address. This is done from various places other than the map page.
When I run the app on a device (even in debug mode) the geocoder works right away in iOS and Android, but does not work in UWP. After I navigate to the map page and display the map, then go back to a different page to use the geocoder it starts working.
I saw a thread about the map not working with release build so I added the following code:
var laRendererAssemblies = new[] { typeof(Xamarin.Forms.Maps.UWP.MapRenderer).GetTypeInfo().Assembly };
Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init(e, laRendererAssemblies);
//Xamarin.Forms.Forms.Init(e);
Xamarin.FormsMaps.Init("MyBingMapsKey");
This has not helped the issue with the Xamarin.Forms.Maps.Geocoder. I also tried creating an instance of Xamarin.Forms.Maps.Map in my main page, but that did not help either. Is there a way to prime the map component so that the Geocoder will work on a device? (My test device is ARM, but it happens when I run on Local
Machine (Win 10) too)
Following is a snippet of the call to the Geocoder (which works fine once the user has navigated to the Map page and back - and it works fine in iOS and Android - and as such I don't believe it is a problem with the code, but here it is):
public static async Task<Plugin.Geolocator.Abstractions.Position> Geocode(string address)
{
try
{
var loGeocoder = new Xamarin.Forms.Maps.Geocoder();
System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("Get Lat/Lon");
var lcolPositions = await loGeocoder.GetPositionsForAddressAsync(address);
if (lcolPositions != null)
After doing some research and ensuring that your geodecode class being static wouldn't mess with the async/await pattern in the UWP build. I've come across a few references to this particular problem with the built in Forms.Map geodecoder elsewhere, not just for UWP it has also been noted for android‡.
I took some time to have a look at one of our current cross-platform applications that we have in the app stores, and according to our internal documentation we switched out both the xamarin.forms map, and the geodecoder for custom ones.
The plugin that we use for our cross-platform application is the 'GelocatorPlugin' created by james montemagno, and can be found here.
It can be added to your project as a Nuget package if you prefer, and the implementation of it is very similar to the default one, so there's very little code to change. The primary benefit is that the UWP element of the geodecode plugin has been modified to take into account windows advanced tracking scenarios (details found here).
It should be a lot more stable than the one your using, once installed you simply use it like so:
Reverse Geocoding
Based on a location that is passed in, thi swill grab a list of
addresses.
UWP requires a Bing Map Key, which you can acquire by reading this
piece of documentation.
try
{
var addresses = await locator.GetAddressesForPositionAsync (position, string mapKey = null);
var address = addresses.FirstOrDefault();
if(address == null)
Console.WriteLine ("No address found for position.");
else
Console.WriteLine ("Addresss: {0} {1} {2}", address.Thoroughfare, address.Locality, address.Country);
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
Debug.WriteLine("Unable to get address: " + ex);
}
‡ Links to similar problems - Link 1, Link 2
resolved after added following lines in APP.xaml.cs (UWP project)
Xamarin.FormsMaps.Init("bingmapkey");
Windows.Services.Maps.MapService.ServiceToken = "bingmapkey";

Meteor Cordova Print plugin

I am developing a Point of sale (POS) for my store. And I am developing a Meteor app that will connect to the POS receipt printer. But as you know you cant simply use window.print().
I read but didnt understand the Meteor documentation about this, and I have several questions about it. (https://guide.meteor.com/mobile.html#using-plugins)
I have installed the katzer/cordova-plugin-printer (https://github.com/katzer/cordova-plugin-printer). And know here comes the questions.
1.- Once installed, I create a file outside the server and client folder and insert a statement such as
if (Meteor.isCordova) {
console.log("Printed only in mobile Cordova apps");
}
and then do I simply add the following line?
if (Meteor.isCordova) {
document.addEventListener('deviceready', function () {
// cordova.plugins.printer is now available
}, false);
}
2.- If this is correct, Do I create a Meteor Method in the server or in Meteor.isCordova? to call the following example.
var page = '<h1>Hello Document</h1>';
cordova.plugins.printer.print(page, 'Document.html');
3.- Should I use server side rendering to create the
var page = '<h1>Hello Document</h1>';
part.
Thank you
To answer your points:
Meteor.startup is run when the device or browser is ready (it's equivalent to what you are doing).
Create a method in the client code - Put the check in the button click method. Something like the code block at the end
Server side rendering won't apply as you are printing from the browser
if (Meteor.isCordova) {
Meteor.call("myPrintMethod",other-info);
} else {
alert("Sorry, I can only print from the device"
}

ShellExecute fails for local html or file URLs

Our company is migrating our help systems over to HTML5 format under Flare. We've also added Topic based access to the help systems using Flare CSHID's on the URI command line for accessing the topic directly, such as index.html#CSHID=GettingStarted to launch the GettingStarted.html help page.
Our apps are written in C++ and leverage the Win32 ShellExecute() function to spawn the default application associated with HTTP to display the help system. We've noticed that ShellExecute() works fine when no hashtag is specified, such as
ShellExecute(NULL, _T("open"), _T("c:\\Help\\index.html"), NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
This function will launch the default browser associated with viewing HTML pages and in this case, the File:/// protocol handler will kick in, the browser will launch and you will see file:///c:/Help/index.html in the address bar.
However, once you add the # information for the topic, ShellExecute() fails to open the page
ShellExecute(NULL,_T("open"),_T("c:\\Help\\index.html#cshid=GettingStarted"),NULL,NULL,SW_SHOWNORMAL);
If the browser opens at all, you'll be directed to file:///c:/Help/index.html without the #cshid=GettingStarted topic identification.
Note that this is only a problem if the File protocol handler is engaged through ShellExecute(), if the help system lives out on the web, and the Http or Https protocol handler is engaged, everything works great.
For our customers, some of whom are on a private LAN, we cannot always rely on Internet access, so our help systems must ship with the application.
After some back-and-forth with Microsoft's MSDN team, they reviewed the source code to the ShellExecute() call and it was determined that yes, when processing File:/// based URLs in ShellExecute(), the ShellExecute() call will strip off the # and any data it finds after the # before launching the default browser and sending in the HTML page to open. MS's stance is that they do this deliberately to prevent injections into the function.
The solution was to beef up the ShellExecute() call by searching the URL for a # and if one was found, then we would manually launch the default browser with the URL. Here's the pseudocode
void WebDrive_ShellExecute(LPCTSTR szURL)
{
if ( _tcschr(szURL,_T('#')) )
{
//
//Get Default Browser from Registry, then launch it.
//
::RegGetStr(HKCR,_T("HTTP\\Shell\\Open\\Command"),szBrowser);
::CreateProcess ( NULL, szBrowser + _T(" ") + szURL, NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0, NULL, NULL, &sui, &pi);
}
else
ShellExecute(NULL,_T("open"),szURL,NULL,NULL,SW_SHOWNORMAL);
}
Granted there's a bit more to the c++ code, but this general design worked for us.
I tried WebDrive's solution and it didn't really work on Windows 10.
"HTTP\Shell\Open\Command" default value is set to Internet Explorer path, regardless of what my default browser setting. However, for Internet Explorer that solution DOES work.
Process to fetch default browser path on Windows 10 is a bit different (How to determine the Windows default browser (at the top of the start menu)) but even then the solution is not guaranteed to work, depending on the browser. E.g. for me it didn't work with Edge.
To get it to work with Edge I had to add "file:///" to the URL -- but that also makes the URL work with ShellExecute(). So, at least on Windows 10, all I needed to do was this:
ShellExecute(NULL,_T("open"),_T("file:///c:/Help/Default.html#cshid=1648"),NULL,NULL,NULL);
UPDATE:
The above stopped working months ago. What I eventually did was go through temporary file, as described here: https://forums.madcapsoftware.com/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=28376#p130613
Use FindExecutable() to get the default browser and pass the full help file path with its queries (?) and fragments (#) as the lpParameters parameter to ShellExecute(). They won't get stripped off there.
Then handle the case if it is a Store App (most likely Microsoft Edge).
Pseudo C code:
if (FindExecutable(_T("c:\Help\index.html"), NULL, szBrowser)
{
if (szBrowser == _T("C:\WINDOWS\system32\LaunchWinApp.exe"))
{
// default browser is a Windows Store App
szBrowser = _T("shell:AppsFolder\Microsoft.MicrosoftEdge_8wekyb3d8bbwe!MicrosoftEdge");
}
}
else
{
szBrowser = szURL;
szURL = NULL;
}
ShellExecute(NULL, NULL, szBrowser, szURL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);
I solved the problem without using any method other than ShellExecute in a Qt Application
QString currentpath = QDir::currentPath();
QString url = "/help//html/index.html#current";
QString full_url = "file:///" + currentpath + url;
QByteArray full_url_arr= full_url.toLocal8Bit();
LPCSTR lp = LPCSTR(full_url_arr.constData());
ShellExecute(NULL, "open", lp, NULL, NULL, SW_SHOWNORMAL);

Run Javascript on the body of a Gmail message

I want to display LaTeX math in the gmail messages that I receive, so that for example $\mathbb P^2$ would show as a nice formula. Now, there are several Javascripts available (for example, this one, or MathJax which would do the job, I just need to call them at the right time to manipulate the gmail message.
I know that this is possible to do in "basic HTML" and "print" views. Is it possible to do in the standard Gmail view? I tried to insert a call to the javascript right before the "canvas_frame" iframe, but that did not work.
My suspicion is that manipulating a Gmail message by any Javascript would be a major security flaw (think of all the malicious links one could insert) and that Google does everything to prevent this. And so the answer to my question is probably 'no'. Am I right in this?
Of course, it would be very easy for Google to implement viewing of LaTeX and MathML math simply by using MathJax on their servers. I made the corresponding Gmail Lab request, but no answer, and no interest from Google apparently.
So, again: is this possible to do without Google's cooperation, on the client side?
I think one of the better ways to do this might be to embed images using the Google Charts API.
<img src="http://chart.apis.google.com/chart?cht=tx&chl=x=\frac{-b%20\pm%20\sqrt{b^2-4ac}}{2a}">
To Learn more: https://developers.google.com/chart/image/ [note, the API has been officially deprecated, but will work until April 2015]
If you really must use LaTeX and some js library, I think one way you could accomplish this is by injecting a script tag into the iframe.
I hope this is a good starting point.
Example:
// ==UserScript==
// #name Test Gmail Alterations
// #version 1
// #author Justen
// #description Test Alter Email
// #include https://mail.google.com/mail/*
// #include http://mail.google.com/mail/*
// #license GPL version 3 or any later version; http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
// ==/UserScript==
(function GmailIframeInject() {
GM_log('Starting GMail iFrame Injection');
var GmailCode = function() {
// Your code here;
// The ':pd' (div id) changes, so you might have to do some extra work
var mail = document.getElementById(':pd');
mail.innerHTML = '<h1>Hello, World!</h1>';
};
var iframe = document.getElementById('canvas_frame');
var doc = null;
if( iframe ) {
GM_log('Got iFrame');
doc = iframe.contentDocument;
} else {
GM_log('ERROR: Could not get iframe with id canvas_frame');
return
}
if( doc ) {
GM_log('Injecting GmailCode');
var code = "(" + GmailCode + ")();"
doc.body.appendChild(doc.createElement('script')).innerHTML=code;
} else {
GM_log('ERROR: Could not get iframe content document');
return;
}
})();
Well, there are already greasemonkey scripts that do things to GMail as far as i know (like this one). Is this a possible security hole? Of course, anything you'd do with executable code has that risk. Google seems to move a glacial speeds on things they're not interested in. They really do seem to function based on internal championing of ideas, so best way forward is to go find sympathetic googlers, if you want them to include something into GMail. Otherwise stick to Greasemonkey, at least you'll have an easy install path for other people who'd like to see the same functionality.

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