chrome/common/extensions/api/experimental_discovery.idl

// 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.

// An experimental API that allows extensions to inject suggest links in the recommended pane of the New Tab Page.
namespace experimental.discovery {

  dictionary SuggestDetails {
    // The URL to suggest and that will be displayed in the new tab page under
    // the recommended pane.
    DOMString linkUrl;

    // The linkified text. It should be relatively short.
    DOMString linkText;

    // The url of the image to use as a tile.
    DOMString? urlImage;

    // A score indicating how interesting that suggestion is. The value must be
    // between 0 and 1. A suggestion with score 1 is twice as likely to be
    // displayed than one with a score of 0.5. Defaults to 1.
    // TODO: need minimum=0 and maximum=1.
    double? score;
  };

  interface Functions {
    // Suggests a URL for discovery.
    // |details|: Detailed information on the URL to suggest.
    static void suggest(SuggestDetails details);

    // Removes a URL that was previously suggested for discovery by this
    // extension.
    // |linkUrl|: The URl to remove from discovery. Must be exactly the same as
    // a linkUrl previously used on a call to suggest.
    static void removeSuggestion(DOMString linkUrl);

    // Clear all the URLs that were previously suggested for discovery by this
    // extension.
    static void clearAllSuggestions();
  };
};