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Listening to an event from my greasemonkey script


I'm trying to figure out how to listen to an event emitter from my greasemonkey script, but I keep getting access violation errors (Permission denied to access object).

Page
The page contains a simple event emitter:

var emitter = function(){
    this.events = {};
}

emitter.prototype.on = function(eventName, closure){
    this.events[eventName] = this.events[eventName] || [];
    this.events[eventName].push(closure);
};

emitter.prototype.emit = function(eventName, data){
    if(this.events[eventName]){
        this.events[eventName].forEach(function(fn){
            return fn(data);
        });
    }
}

var test = new emitter();
test.emit('test', {data:'test'});

Script
This throws an access violation error (this used to work a while ago, but I guess it got patched or something):

unsafeWindow.test.on('test', function(data){
    console.log(data);
});

Solution

  • I managed to get it working. The solution was to export the callback function into unsafe context via exportFunction(myFunction, unsafeWindow)

    The script part should look like this:

    unsafeWindow.test.on('test', exportFunction(function(data){
       console.log(data);
    }, unsafeWindow));
    

    Big thanks to wOxxOm for pointing this out.