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Issue 10855015: Add documentation for filtered events. (Closed) Base URL: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src
Patch Set: rebase again Created 8 years, 4 months ago
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Index: chrome/common/extensions/docs/static/events.html
diff --git a/chrome/common/extensions/docs/static/events.html b/chrome/common/extensions/docs/static/events.html
index 7dc4032fa88dd88d02d0fd4751b24313818ae21c..d70b77eb343bee303ab5d16db20b8cae8410f06a 100644
--- a/chrome/common/extensions/docs/static/events.html
+++ b/chrome/common/extensions/docs/static/events.html
@@ -154,3 +154,45 @@ The <code>details</code> parameter passed to the <code>calback()</code> function
refers to an array of rules including filled optional parameters.
</p>
</div>
+
+<div class="doc-family extensions">
+<h2 id="filtered">Filtered events</h2>
+
+<p>Filtered events are a mechanism that allows listeners to specify a subset of
+events that they are interested in. A listener that makes use of a filter won't
+be invoked for events that don't pass the filter, which makes the listening
+code more declarative and efficient - an <a href="event_pages.html">event
+ page</a> page need not be woken up to handle events it doesn't care
+about.</p>
+
+<p>Filtered events are intended to allow a transition from manual filtering
+code like this:</p>
+
+<pre>
+chrome.webNavigation.onCommitted.addListener(function(e) {
+ if (hasHostSuffix(e.url, 'google.com') ||
+ hasHostSuffix(e.url, 'google.com.au')) {
+ // ...
+ }
+});
+</pre>
+
+<p>into this:</p>
+
+<pre>
+chrome.webNavigation.onCommitted.addListener(function(e) {
+ // ...
+}, {url: [{hostSuffix: 'google.com'},
+ {hostSuffix: 'google.com.au'}]});
+</pre>
+
+<p>Events support specific filters that are meaningful to that event. The list
+of filters that an event supports will be listed in the documentation for that
+event in the "filters" section.</p>
+
+<p>When matching URLs (as in the example above), event filters support the same
+URL matching capabilities as expressable with a <a
+ href="events.html#type-UrlFilter">UrlFilter</a>, except for scheme and port
+matching.</p>
+
+</div>

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