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Here I have 2 JavaScript files and I modified the manifest.json as below to avoid errors:

{ "matches": [ "*://example.com" ], "all_frames": true, "css":[ "css/d.css", "css/bootstrap.min.css" ], "js": [ "scripts/jquery.min.js", "scripts/home/msg.js", "scripts/home/modify.js" ] }

Now I have an object residing in the msg.js file and I'm only including relevant parts:

o = { "timeStamps" : t.slice(), "messages" : Object.assign({}, a) } console.log(o); help(o.messages, o.timeStamps.length); function help_final(){ return o; }

Here console.log(o) is working fine. So i want this object o in another file named modified.js.

Here is my modified.js file:

message_object = help_final(); $.getScript( "msg.js" ) .done(function( script, textStatus ) { console.log( textStatus ); //here i need to access the object o and store it as global variable }) .fail(function( jqxhr, settings, exception ) { }); $(document).ready(function() { console.log("ready!"); //I need to access the obj here console.log(message_object); });
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  • are those 2 js files backgrond pages? Commented Jul 4, 2016 at 17:21
  • @juvian no just normal scripts Commented Jul 4, 2016 at 17:24

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You should export the function so you can access the object outside of that specific file to the browser so that all your files can access the object (from what it looks like your trying to store it globally anyway).

So in msg.js just do at the bottom (assuming this is only to be used in a browser) window.message_object = help_final;

And then just modify your code a bit in the other files to call message_object() to get the o object.

You should also look into using javascript prototypes https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Object/prototype

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window.o is implicit in o=... and isn't necessary. I think this is an extension problem, not a javascript problem.
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You can just say console.log(o) in modified.js. $.getScript puts the script into the world of the page, not the world of the extension. For more information, read about the isolated world.

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