Scaffolding for an experimental discovery API letting users inject links in the recommended pane of…

chrome/common/extensions/api/experimental.discovery.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.discovery",
+    "functions": [
+      {
+        "name": "suggest",
+        "type": "function",
+        "description": "Suggests a URL for discovery.",
+        "parameters": [
+          {
+            "type": "object",
+            "name": "details",
+            "properties": {
+              "linkUrl": {
+                "type": "string",
+                "description": "The URL to suggest and that will be displayed in the new tab page under the recommended pane."
+              },
+              "linkText": {
+                "type": "string",
+                "description": "The linkified text. It should be relatively short."
+              },
+              "score": {
+                "type": "number",
+                "optional": true,
+                "description": "A score indicating how interesting that suggestion is. A score of 2 is twice as likely to be displayed than a score of 1. Defaults to 1."

[Aaron Boodman, 2012/05/11 21:06:46]

What is the range of this number? Are non-integral values allowed? You can
tighten the specification quite a bit.

[beaudoin, 2012/05/14 23:28:02]

Forced to be within the 0-1 range. Added a check (see discovery_api.cc)

+              }
+            }
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "clearSuggestion",

[Aaron Boodman, 2012/05/11 21:06:46]

Should there be a way to get the current suggestions?

[Aaron Boodman, 2012/05/11 21:06:46]

Suggest "removeSuggestion". "clear" usually means to remove all.

[beaudoin, 2012/05/14 23:28:02]

Done.

+        "type": "function",
+        "description": "Clear a URL that was previously suggested for discovery.",
+        "parameters": [
+          {
+            "type": "string",
+            "name": "linkUrl",
+            "description": "The URL to remove from discovery. Must be exactly the same as a URL previously used on a call to <a href=\"experimental.discovery.html#method-suggest\"><var>suggest</var></a>."
+          }
+        ]
+      },
+      {
+        "name": "clearAllSuggestions",
+        "type": "function",
+        "description": "Clear all URLs that were previously suggested for discovery.",
+        "parameters": []
+      }
+    ]
+  }
+]