MozActivity

Summary

The MozActivity interface allows apps to delegate an activity to another app.

This interface fully inherits from the DOMRequest interface except that it has a constructor that it takes a MozActivityOptions as a parameter.

Constructor

new MozActivity( options )

options

An object that has the same properties as the ones define in the MozActivityOptions interface.

Properties

Inherited from DOMRequest:

Methods

None.

Example

var activity = new MozActivity({
  // The name of the activity the app wants to delegate the action
  name: "pick",

  // Data required by the activity. Each application acting as an activity handler 
  // can have it's own requirement for the activity. If the data does not fulfill
  // all the requirement of any activity handler, the error event will be sent
  // otherwise, the event sent depend on the activity handler itself.
  data: {
    type: "image/jpeg"
  }
});

activity.onsuccess = function() {
  console.log("Activity successfuly handled");

  var imgSrc = this.result.blob;
}

activity.onerror = function() {
  console.log("The activity encouter en error: " + this.error);
}

Specification

Web Activities is not part of any specification. However, it has some overlap with the proposed Web Intents specification. Mozilla actually proposed Web Activities as a counter proposal to Web Intents. For more information about this, see discussion on the Web Intents Task Force ML.

See also

• DOMRequest
• MozActivityOptions
• Web Activities

Browser compatibility

[1] WebRT only