Notepad SDK access

Question

I would like to test small fragments of my additional code with notepad. In this case, I am trying to access the notification module as follows:

const { notify } = require("sdk/notifications");
notify({
  //My notification options
}); 

As expected, I get an error Exception: require is not defined. Since the Add-on SDK is packaged with Firefox, I wonder if there is a way to access the modules directly from Notepad. Thanks.

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Edit: after some Googling, I discovered a scratch-kit (github) , an add-on that does exactly what I'm trying to do. But unfortunately broken , so I filed an error in the hope that this functionality will be added to devtools.

Answer 1

There is currently no way to do this. Several things can happen to make this possible so that people can observe / contribute:

• scratch-kit updated
• native jetpack is complete and integrated with itchpad (which should replace the scratch kit). I made an example that I wrote about on the blog, but it is not yet ready for release .

Answer 2

There is currently a relatively simple way to do this. The following code works fine if executed in a privileged context (which means that the Scratchpad environment switches to Browser):

let {require} = Cu.import("resource://gre/modules/commonjs/toolkit/require.js", {});
let {notify} = require("sdk/notifications");

, Firefox 36, , .

: pull request # 1679 ( ).