How to implement Native Message with executable exe

[Chris Kim]

Hello. 

I'm trying to implement Chrome extension for communicating with external EXE. I have searched I can implement it to use Chrome's Native message. So I have followed the page where is Google's official site(https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/nativeMessaging). but the thing is that I got some errors when I tried to register it on Chrome. such as there are no version, manifest version and unrecognized allowed_origins, type or something. Did I do something wrong? or I missed something? or the page is wrong? Could you let me know the page where explain very detailed to implement native message with external EXE instead of the official page.

[David Wolff]

You could create a web-socket server from within the EXE file. But that requires that you compile the source code (.exe file) yourself. And then you are able to connect to that web-socket server through your extension.

[Chris Kim]

Thx to replying Wolff

you mean I can not use Native message for communicating with Chrome Extension and External EXE? cuz I need to develop chrome extension that sends web information to EXE in real-time when users travel website. which means web site wasn't ours. So I wanted to use Native messaging instead of web-socket. if you know the solution, could you let me know?

Thx in advance.

[Radiant One]

You really need to do some more thorough research on the web. It's a fairly complex thing to set up properly and all you're going to get here is general guidance and maybe a web link for starters.

Good luck!

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 4:19 AM Chris Kim <cjsc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello. 

I'm trying to implement Chrome extension for communicating with external EXE. I have searched I can implement it to use Chrome's Native message. So I have followed the page where is Google's official site(https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/nativeMessaging). but the thing is that I got some errors when I tried to register it on Chrome. such as there are no version, manifest version and unrecognized allowed_origins, type or something. Did I do something wrong? or I missed something? or the page is wrong? Could you let me know the page where explain very detailed to implement native message with external EXE instead of the official page.

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[Chris Kim]

Thx to advising Radiant.

Probably, I missed something on the official web guide. also, I will look at the general guidance or starter guide here.

On Monday, 24 June 2019 21:30:16 UTC+9, Radiant One wrote:

You really need to do some more thorough research on the web. It's a fairly complex thing to set up properly and all you're going to get here is general guidance and maybe a web link for starters.

Good luck!

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019, 4:19 AM Chris Kim <cjsc...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello. 

I'm trying to implement Chrome extension for communicating with external EXE. I have searched I can implement it to use Chrome's Native message. So I have followed the page where is Google's official site(https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/nativeMessaging). but the thing is that I got some errors when I tried to register it on Chrome. such as there are no version, manifest version and unrecognized allowed_origins, type or something. Did I do something wrong? or I missed something? or the page is wrong? Could you let me know the page where explain very detailed to implement native message with external EXE instead of the official page.

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[Simeon Vincent]

I got some errors when I tried to register it on Chrome. such as there are no version, manifest version and unrecognized allowed_origins, type or something

Sounds like you're missing a fields in your extension's manifest.json file. Note that the manifest file referenced in the Native Messaging Host section of the nativeMessaging docs IS NOT your extension's manifest.json file - it's a file (or registry string) that Chrome will use to find out what executables it should connect to.

To be honest we don't have a great example of how to use native messaging at the moment. We have one sample, but it's a Chrome App rather than an Extension.

Simeon - @dotproto

Extensions Developer Advocate

[Chris Kim]

thx to your kindness, Vincent.

Yeah, I was confused between manifest.json and host.json files. so I got a one sample on the internet. but it doesn't work well. I can connect chrome extension with host app but it's disconnected when I send a message to host.

the sample is below :

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35313648/how-to-send-receive-message-between-chrome-extension-native-messaging-and-c-sh

if you know the answer, plz could you let me know?