ReferenceError: require is not defined

[Erik Vold]

I got a "ReferenceError: require is not defined" error when trying to require a module from within a context menu's contentScript. The jetpack module is one that I made awhile ago which simply exports the methods provided by Components.utils.import("resource://gre/modules/Microformats.js");. This jsm module exports a method called get(), which requires a DOM element as an argument. So I can't use the module from within main.js afacit, and since I can't use require() within the contentScript of a context menu either.. it seems like I can't use this module.

or is there something that I've missed? can I use handles here?

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[Friedrich Haussmann]

I am trying to use

require("something_inside_lib_dir")

inside a

contentScriptFile: self.data.url("file_inside_data_dir")

but I am running into the same error

ReferenceError: require is not defined

The system is running addon-sdk-1.0b4 and Firefox 4.

Since I am quite new to javascript development maybe I should use a different design principle, but searching in this mailinglist and in the jetpack documentation did not help. I would welcome any assistance.

Cheers,
Friedrich

[Hernan Rodriguez Colmeiro]

Some extra code to know what's the context of the require call would
help. Having the full source of the file where you're having the
problem would greatly help.

Hernán

[KWierso]

IIRC, you can't require modules from within the contentscript file.
Best you can do is loading it in the addon's context and then use
message passing to/from the content script to get things done.

On Apr 23, 10:40 am, Friedrich Haussmann <friedr...@haussmann.tel>
wrote:

[Sean McArthur]

Correct. In the content script files, its just like normal DOM-y JavaScript.  require is mechanism used in many newer JavaScript environments, like Node, and Jetpack, but it's not a standard, and so not in browsers to use with HTML.

[KWierso]

Now, page-mod's constructor CAN take an array of URLs for the
contentScriptFile attribute. So you can load more than one file into
your page-mod's context.

[Werdon Morris]

So, then just delete the comment, and issue, and it will no longer be a problem.

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