the message passing odyssey...

app/c.js

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ function captureFrontMatterAndMarkdown() {
     } else if (k == "relpath") {
       filepath = `${location.pathname.split('/public')[0]}/content/${formData.get(k)}`
       gitpath = `${location.pathname.split('/public')[0]}`
+      publishpath = `${gitpath}/public/${formData.get(k).replace(".md", "")}/index.html`
     } else if (["protocol", "offline"].includes(k)) {
       continue 
     } else {
@@ -25,10 +26,10 @@ function captureFrontMatterAndMarkdown() {
   }
   frontmatter += "---\n"
   const content = document.querySelector('textarea').value
-  let doc = frontmatter + content
+  let doc = frontmatter + "\n" + content
   let publish = formData.get("publish") == "on" ? true : false
   let offline = formData.get("offline") == "on" ? true : false
-  return {"hugopage": doc, "filepath": filepath, "gitpath": gitpath, "publish": publish, "offline": offline, "protocol": document.location.protocol.substr(0,4)}
+  return {"hugopage": doc, "filepath": filepath, "gitpath": gitpath, "publishpath": publishpath, "publish": publish, "offline": offline, "protocol": document.location.protocol.substr(0,4)}
 }
 
 let sb = document.getElementById('sandpointsButton')
@@ -36,8 +37,11 @@ if (sb) {
   sb.addEventListener(
     "click", (e)=> {
       e.preventDefault()
-      chrome.runtime.sendMessage(
-        captureFrontMatterAndMarkdown()
-      );
+      pageDict = captureFrontMatterAndMarkdown()
+      chrome.runtime.sendMessage(pageDict)
     });
 }
+
+chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener((m, n)=> {
+  window.location.replace(m.msg)
+})

app/main.js

@@ -10,6 +10,16 @@ chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener((m, n)=> {
   nh.onMessage.addListener((m, n)=> {
     console.log("native host message:", m)
     console.log("native host sender:", n)  
+    if (m.Response != "false") {
+      chrome.tabs.query({ active: true, currentWindow: true }, (tabs) => {
+        chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tabs[0].id, { msg: m.response }, (response) => {
+          if (response) {
+            console.log(response)
+          }
+        });
+      })
+    }
   })
 })
 
+

native-host/src/main.go

@@ -38,12 +38,13 @@ var bufferSize = 8192
 
 // IncomingMessage represents a message sent to the native host.
 type IncomingMessage struct {
-	Hugopage string `json:"hugopage"`
-	Filepath string `json:"filepath"`
-	Gitpath  string `json:"gitpath"`
-	Publish  bool   `json:"publish"`
-	Offline  bool   `json:"offline"`
-	Protocol string `json:"protocol"`
+	Hugopage    string `json:"hugopage"`
+	Filepath    string `json:"filepath"`
+	Gitpath     string `json:"gitpath"`
+	Publishpath string `json:"publishpath"`
+	Publish     bool   `json:"publish"`
+	Offline     bool   `json:"offline"`
+	Protocol    string `json:"protocol"`
 }
 
 // OutgoingMessage respresents a response to an incoming message query.
@@ -207,14 +208,14 @@ func parseMessage(msg []byte) {
 	triggerGitHook(iMsg.Gitpath, iMsg.Publish, iMsg.Offline, iMsg.Protocol)
 	// start building outgoing json message
 	oMsg := OutgoingMessage{
-		Query: iMsg.Hugopage,
+		Query: iMsg.Protocol,
 	}
 
-	switch iMsg.Hugopage {
-	case "foo":
-		oMsg.Response = "bar"
+	switch iMsg.Protocol {
+	case "file":
+		oMsg.Response = iMsg.Publishpath
 	default:
-		oMsg.Response = "native host says yeah!"
+		oMsg.Response = "false"
 	}
 
 	send(oMsg)
@@ -230,7 +231,7 @@ func decodeMessage(msg []byte) IncomingMessage {
 	return iMsg
 }
 
-// send sends an OutgoingMessage to os.Stdout.
+// sends an OutgoingMessage to os.Stdout.
 func send(msg OutgoingMessage) {
 	byteMsg := dataToBytes(msg)
 	writeMessageLength(byteMsg)