Proposal: StorageArea.onChanged filters #475
Description
Problem
When monitoring storage changes via a service worker, all changes activate the worker, even if only a specific value matters.
Proposal
Allow StorageArea.onChanged.addListener to accept an optional StorageChangeFilter as an argument.
browser.storage.local.onChanged.addListener(callback, filter?: StorageChangeFilter)
// Usage example
browser.storage.local.onChanged.addListener(handleChanges, {startsWith: ['flags:', 'global:']})
interface StorageChangeFilter {
// positive parameters
startsWith?: string[],
contains?: string[],
equals?: string[],
// negative parameters
doesNotStartWith?: string[],
doesNotContain?: string[],
doesNotEqual?: string[]
}