{"id":384,"date":"2011-07-27T17:09:59","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T07:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/makesomecode.com\/?p=384"},"modified":"2011-07-27T17:09:59","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T07:09:59","slug":"chrome-extension-sendrequest-wont-pass-object","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/blog\/chrome-extension-sendrequest-wont-pass-object\/","title":{"rendered":"chrome.extension.sendRequest won&#039;t pass object"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I had a bit of trouble with Google&#8217;s chrome.extension.sendRequest function used in their Chrome extensions API. I found that I was not able to pass my variable outside of the function. I came accross <a href=\"http:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/2591814\/javascript-global-variable-not-working-properly\">this post<\/a> that helped explain the reason why.<!--more--> Although I didn&#8217;t come up with the ideal solution this did end up working for me in the end:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"prettyprint\" lang='javascript'>\nfunction doSomething(){\n    chrome.extension.sendRequest(options, function(response){\n        var thing = response.data;\n        \/\/Do something with our variable.\n        \/\/The rest of the function goes here before the next bracket\n    });\n}\n<\/pre>\n<p>Instead of trying to pass the variable out of chrome.extension.sendRequest I simply just wrapped the whole function in it and that seemed to solve my problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I had a bit of trouble with Google&#8217;s chrome.extension.sendRequest function used in their Chrome extensions API. I found that I was not able to pass my variable outside of the function. I came accross this post that helped explain the reason why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,9],"tags":[32,48,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nickv.codes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}