// Copyright (c) 2012 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. [ { "namespace": "debugger", "description": "The <code>chrome.debugger</code> API serves as an alternate transport for Chrome's <a href='http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/remote-debugging.html'>remote debugging protocol</a>. Use <code>chrome.debugger</code> to attach to one or more tabs to instrument network interaction, debug JavaScript, mutate the DOM and CSS, etc. Use the Debuggee <code>tabId</code> to target tabs with sendCommand and route events by <code>tabId</code> from onEvent callbacks.", "types": [ { "id": "Debuggee", "type": "object", "description": "Debuggee identifier. Either tabId or extensionId must be specified", "properties": { "tabId": { "type": "integer", "optional": true, "description": "The id of the tab which you intend to debug." }, "extensionId": { "type": "string", "optional": true, "description": "The id of the extension which you intend to debug. Attaching to an extension background page is only possible when 'enable-silent-debugging' flag is enabled on the target browser." }, "targetId": { "type": "string", "optional": true, "description": "The opaque id of the debug target." } } }, { "id": "TargetInfo", "type": "object", "description": "Debug target information", "properties": { "type": { "type": "string", "description": "Target type.", "enum" : ["page", "background_page", "worker", "other" ] }, "id": { "type": "string", "description": "Target id." }, "tabId": { "type": "integer", "optional": true, "description": "The tab id, defined if type == 'page'." }, "extensionId": { "type": "string", "optional": true, "description": "The extension id, defined if type = 'background_page'." }, "attached": { "type": "boolean", "description": "True if debugger is already attached." }, "title": { "type": "string", "description": "Target page title." }, "url": { "type": "string", "description": "Target URL." }, "faviconUrl": { "type": "string", "optional": true, "description": "Target favicon URL." } } } ], "functions": [ { "name": "attach", "type": "function", "description": "Attaches debugger to the given target.", "parameters": [ { "$ref": "Debuggee", "name": "target", "description": "Debugging target to which you want to attach." }, { "type": "string", "name": "requiredVersion", "description": "Required debugging protocol version (\"0.1\"). One can only attach to the debuggee with matching major version and greater or equal minor version. List of the protocol versions can be obtained <a href='http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/remote-debugging.html'>here</a>." }, { "type": "function", "name": "callback", "optional": true, "parameters": [], "description": "Called once the attach operation succeeds or fails. Callback receives no arguments. If the attach fails, $ref:runtime.lastError will be set to the error message." } ] }, { "name": "detach", "type": "function", "description": "Detaches debugger from the given target.", "parameters": [ { "$ref": "Debuggee", "name": "target", "description": "Debugging target from which you want to detach." }, { "type": "function", "name": "callback", "optional": true, "parameters": [], "description": "Called once the detach operation succeeds or fails. Callback receives no arguments. If the detach fails, $ref:runtime.lastError will be set to the error message." } ] }, { "name": "sendCommand", "type": "function", "description": "Sends given command to the debugging target.", "parameters": [ { "$ref": "Debuggee", "name": "target", "description": "Debugging target to which you want to send the command." }, { "type": "string", "name": "method", "description": "Method name. Should be one of the methods defined by the <a href='http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/remote-debugging.html'>remote debugging protocol</a>." }, { "type": "object", "name": "commandParams", "optional": true, "additionalProperties": { "type": "any" }, "description": "JSON object with request parameters. This object must conform to the remote debugging params scheme for given method." }, { "type": "function", "name": "callback", "optional": true, "parameters": [ { "type": "object", "name": "result", "optional": true, "additionalProperties": { "type": "any" }, "description": "JSON object with the response. Structure of the response varies depending on the method and is defined by the remote debugging protocol." } ], "description": "Response body. If an error occurs while posting the message, the callback will be called with no arguments and $ref:runtime.lastError will be set to the error message." } ] }, { "name": "getTargets", "type": "function", "description": "Returns the list of available debug targets.", "parameters": [ { "type": "function", "name": "callback", "parameters": [ { "type": "array", "name": "result", "items": {"$ref": "TargetInfo"}, "description": "Array of TargetInfo objects corresponding to the available debug targets." } ] } ] } ], "events": [ { "name": "onEvent", "type": "function", "description": "Fired whenever debugging target issues instrumentation event.", "parameters": [ { "$ref": "Debuggee", "name": "source", "description": "The debuggee that generated this event." }, { "type": "string", "name": "method", "description": "Method name. Should be one of the notifications defined by the <a href='http://code.google.com/chrome/devtools/docs/remote-debugging.html'>remote debugging protocol</a>." }, { "type": "object", "name": "params", "optional": true, "additionalProperties": { "type": "any" }, "description": "JSON object with the response. Structure of the response varies depending on the method and is defined by the remote debugging protocol." } ] }, { "name": "onDetach", "type": "function", "description": "Fired when browser terminates debugging session for the tab. This happens when either the tab is being closed or Chrome DevTools is being invoked for the attached tab.", "parameters": [ { "$ref": "Debuggee", "name": "source", "description": "The debuggee that was detached." }, { "type": "string", "name": "reason", "description": "Connection termination reason.", "enum": [ "target_closed", "canceled_by_user", "replaced_with_devtools" ] } ] } ] } ]