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Opened 12 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#20811 closed defect (bug) (fixed)

Theme Customizer: Fix race condition in previewer and use message channels

Reported by: koopersmith's profile koopersmith Owned by: koopersmith's profile koopersmith
Milestone: 3.4 Priority: normal
Severity: major Version: 3.4
Component: Customize Keywords: has-patch needs-testing commit
Focuses: Cc:

Description

In the customizer, if any settings are updated via JS (postMessage or otherwise) after a request is sent, the request becomes immediately outdated. This creates a race condition between the request and any JS-specific changes applied after the request is sent. To solve this problem, we should send the updated values to the preview frame once it renders.

This, however, requires several other things. First, it requires the preview frame to send a ready event to the parent once it has rendered. Second, it requires us to be able to distinguish messages across the same connection but sent to different windows. To control this, we can add a channel parameter to the Messenger object.

In general, this also has the beneficial side effect of making preview requests more robust.

Attachments (2)

20811.diff (14.1 KB) - added by koopersmith 12 years ago.
20811.2.diff (14.4 KB) - added by koopersmith 12 years ago.

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Change History (6)

@koopersmith
12 years ago

@koopersmith
12 years ago

#1 @koopersmith
12 years ago

  • Keywords has-patch needs-testing added

#2 @nacin
12 years ago

20811.2.diff — complicated, but solid. Everything is snappy, and I can't trigger any race conditions based on slow refreshes. I've tested out all of the controls, and a few custom ones.

It also fixed an issue (for me) where a non-postMessage color wheel would not trigger a refresh if I dragged the color indicator, rather than clicking.

#3 @nacin
12 years ago

  • Keywords commit added

#4 @ryan
12 years ago

  • Resolution set to fixed
  • Status changed from new to closed

In [20988]:

Theme Customizer: Fix race condition in previewer and use message channels. Props koopersmith. fixes #20811

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