How does InboxSDK get the messageId in Google Inbox

[Jeppe Reinhold]

Hi. I'm in the process of making a WebExtension, that adds extra Trello functionality to Google Inbox (not Gmail).

However it is crucial to me that the extension is a fully compatible WebExtension that works with Firefox and Edge browser besides Chrome.

This means that I can't use the InboxSDK, as it only supports Chrome.

I'm trying to implement a way to get the threadId or messageId when a user clicks a button in the actions toolbar.

Do you care to tell me how InboxSDK achieves this?

Basically, how does the ThreadView.getThreadIDAsync() or MessageView.getMessageIDAsync() functions work?

I hope you'd like to help me. thanks

[Chris Cowan]

Currently we make an ajax request for the "Show Original" page, and then parse the id out of the URL of the "Download Original" link, and then cache that.

[Jeppe Reinhold]

Oh, that's really clever! thanks!

Then I have two follow-up questions:

- How do you get the ik-value that is needed to build the "Show Original" URL? (I can see that it is present in a InboxSDK element in the head). I can see it available a few places in the DOM, most notably a weird <script> tag in the head, with a lot of nulls etc. Do you just extract it from there?

- How do you make the actual ajax request? When I do it from the extension, it seems like it is redirected to an https://accionts.google.com/ServiceLogin.... url, which triggers an "No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' error.

[Aleem Mawani]

is this guy trying to reverse eng the SDK? SHould he just be using the sdk?

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[Jeppe Reinhold]

I'm sorry if my questions seems offensive. As I wrote, I would love to use the SDK if it just supported other browsers than Chrome.
I'm also a firm believer of sharing knowledge, I don't see how anyone can loose anything from sharing experience and knowledge like this.

If I actually WERE trying to reverse engineer the whole SDK to do harm to you or your company, I would probably ask questions that are a bit harder than how to make a simple Ajax request. ;)

[Aleem Mawani]

foot in mouth. sorry about that.

thanks for clarifying. didn't see that you were trying to get this to work in firefox. we haven't done a fully exhaustive test of which apis work in firefox and which don't but we'd expect some of them to work. Is this an example of one that doesn't?

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[Jeppe Reinhold]

No problem.

I honestly don't know if it is that API that is not working. As I recall, I'm only using registerThreadButton(), getSubject() and getThreadIDAsync(), so it's probably one of those. I must also admit that I haven't tested it extensively myself either, as I just assumed the SDK only supports Chrome per the documentation.