Using LS2 API in Web Apps

To utilize the platform capabilities in your web app, you can use LS2 API.

This page describes how to use LS2 API in your web app, with an example of the following dummy service and method:

• Service name: com.webos.service.<required_service>
• Method name: <method_to_call>

Call LS2 API Methods

Depending on the platform version, a different API or library is used in order to call LS2 API.

This section describes how you can call LS2 API methods by platform version.

• webOS OSE 2.0 or higher
• webOS OSE 1.x

webOS OSE 2.0 or higher

webOS OSE 2.0 or higher provides WebOSServiceBridge, a built-in JavaScript API for web apps to access Luna Bus.

You can use the WebOSServiceBridge API to call LS2 API methods in your web app.

For detailed information on how to use the API, see the WebOSServiceBridge API reference.

webOS OSE 1.x

On webOS OSE 1.x, using the webOS library lets you call LS2 API methods in your web app.

For details on how to prepare the webOS library, see the Appendix.

After including the webOS library, use the webOS.service.request method as below in order to call LS2 API.

var subscriptionStatus = true; //change this to false to disable subscription

var request = webOS.service.request("luna://com.webos.service.<required_service>/", {
    method:"<method_to_call>",
    parameters: {
        foo:"bar"
    },
    onSuccess: function(inResponse) {
        //....
    },
    onFailure: function(inError) {
        //....
    },
    subscribe: subscriptionStatus
});

Identify the ACG Group of the Methods

You need to identify the ACG (Access Control Groups) information for the methods being used.

Find out the ACG information using the ls-monitor command with the -i option.

$ ls-monitor -i com.webos.service.<required_service>

METHODS AND SIGNALS REGISTERED BY SERVICE 'com.webos.service.<required_service>' WITH UNIQUE NAME '********' AT HUB
  "/":
...
      "<method_to_call>": {"provides:["group1","group2"]}
...

Specify the Permissions for Using the Methods

In your web app project, add the requiredPermissions property to the appinfo.json file and specify the ACG information of the methods on the property.

{
    ...
    "requiredPermissions": ["group1", "group2"],
    ...
}

What’s Next

You need to iterate the steps above for each LS2 API method used in your web app.

After you finish implementing the web app, proceed with the rest of the development process to build and run your app.

Appendix: Preparing webOS libarary for webOS OSE 1.x

In webOS OSE 1.x, the webOS library (webOS.js) is required in order to call LS2 API method from a web app.

To include the library in a web app, follow the steps below:

1. Download the webOS library file from webOSjs-0.1.0.zip and decompress it to the project root directory. The following directory will be created:

   webOSjs-0.1.0
   ├── LICENSE-2.0.txt
   └── webOS.js
   

2. In the index.html file, include the webOS library with the following code.

   index.html
   <script type="text/javascript" src="webOSjs-0.1.0/webOS.js"></script>