chrome/common/extensions/api/devtools/experimental_audits.json

// 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": "experimental.devtools.audits",
    "description": "Use the <code>chrome.experimental.devtools.audits</code> API to add new audit categories to the Developer Tools' Audit panel.",
    "nocompile": true,
    "functions": [
      {
        "name": "addCategory",
        "type": "function",
        "description": "Adds an audit category.",
        "parameters": [
          { "name": "displayName", "type": "string", "description": "A display name for the category." },
          { "name": "resultCount", "type": "number", "description": "The expected number of audit results in the category." }
        ],
        "returns": {
          "$ref": "AuditCategory"
        }
      }
    ],
    "types": [
      {
        "id": "AuditCategory",
        "type": "object",
        "description": "A group of logically related audit checks.",
        "events": [
          {
            "name": "onAuditStarted",
            "type": "function",
            "description": "If the category is enabled, this event is fired when the audit is started. The event handler is expected to initiate execution of the audit logic that will populate the <code>results</code> collection.",
            "parameters": [
              { "name": "results", "$ref": "AuditResults" }
            ]
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "id": "FormattedValue",
        "type": "object",
        "additionalProperties": { "type": "any" },
        "description": "A value returned from one of the formatters (a URL, code snippet etc), to be passed to <code>createResult()</code> or <code>addChild()</code>. See $ref:AuditResults.createSnippet and $ref:AuditResults.createURL."
      },
      {
        "id": "AuditResults",
        "type": "object",
        "description": "A collection of audit results for the current run of the audit category.",
        "functions": [
          {
            "name": "addResult",
            "type": "function",
            "description": "Adds an audit result. The results are rendered as bulleted items under the audit category assoicated with the <code>AuditResults</code> object.",
            "parameters": [
              {
                "name": "displayName",
                "type": "string",
                "description": "A concise, high-level description of the result."
              },
              {
                "name": "description",
                "type": "string",
                "description": "A detailed description of what the displayName means."
              },
              {
                "name": "severity",
                "$ref": "AuditResultSeverity"
              },
              {
                "name": "details",
                "$ref": "AuditResultNode",
                "optional": true,
                "description": "A subtree that appears under the added result that may provide additional details on the violations found."
              }
            ]
          },
          {
            "name": "createResult",
            "type": "function",
            "description": "Creates a result node that may be used as the <code>details</code> parameters to the <code>addResult()</code> method.",
            "parameters": [
              {
                "name": "content",
                "choices": [
                  { "type": "string" },
                  { "$ref": "FormattedValue" }
                ],
                "description": "Either string or formatted values returned by one of the AuditResult formatters (a URL, a snippet etc). If multiple arguments are passed, these will be concatenated into a single node."
              }
            ],
            "returns": {
              "$ref": "AuditResultNode"
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "done",
            "type": "function",
            "description": "Signals the DevTools Audits panel that the run of this category is over. The audit run also completes automatically when the number of added top-level results is equal to that declared when AuditCategory was created."
          },
          {
            "name": "createURL",
            "type": "function",
            "description": "Render passed value as a URL in the Audits panel.",
            "parameters": [
              { "name": "href", "type": "string", "description": "A URL that appears as the href value on the resulting link." },
              { "name": "displayText", "type": "string", "description": "Text that appears to the user.", "optional": true }
            ],
            "returns": { "$ref": "FormattedValue" }
          },
          {
            "name": "createSnippet",
            "type": "function",
            "description": "Render passed text as a code snippet in the Audits panel.",
            "parameters": [
              { "name": "text", "type": "string", "description": "Snippet text." }
            ],
            "returns": { "$ref": "FormattedValue" }
          }
        ],
        "properties": {
          "Severity": {
            "$ref": "AuditResultSeverity",
            "description": "A class that contains possible values for the audit result severities."
          },
          "text": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The contents of the node."
          },
          "children": {
            "optional": true,
            "type": "array",
            "items": { "$ref": "AuditResultNode" },
            "description": "Children of this node."
          },
          "expanded": {
            "optional": "true",
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "Whether the node is expanded by default."
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "AuditResultNode",
        "type": "object",
        "description": "A node in the audit result tree. Displays content and may optionally have children nodes.",
        "functions": [
          {
            "name": "addChild",
            "description": "Adds a child node to this node.",
            "parameters": [
              {
                "name": "content",
                "choices": [
                  { "type": "string" },
                  { "$ref": "FormattedValue" }
                ],
                "description": "Either string or formatted values returned by one of the AuditResult formatters (URL, snippet etc). If multiple arguments are passed, these will be concatenated into a single node."
              }
            ],
            "returns": {
              "$ref": "AuditResultNode"
            }
          }
        ],
        "properties": {
          "expanded": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "If set, the subtree will always be expanded."
          }
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "AuditResultSeverity",
        "type": "object",
        "description": "This type contains possible values for a result severity. The results of different severities are distinguished by colored bullets near the result's display name.",
        "properties": {
          "Info": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "Warning": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "Severe": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  }
]