### Method

# WebKit2 UserContentManager register_script_message_handler

since: 2.8

#### Declaration [src]

    gboolean
    webkit_user_content_manager_register_script_message_handler (
      WebKitUserContentManager* manager,
      const gchar* name
    )

#### Description [src]

Registers a new user script message handler.

After it is registered, scripts can use `window.webkit.messageHandlers.<name>.postMessage(value)` to send messages. Those messages are received by connecting handlers to the `WebKitUserContentManager::script-message-received` signal. The handler name is used as the detail of the signal. To avoid race conditions between registering the handler name, and starting to receive the signals, it is recommended to connect to the signal before registering the handler name:

    WebKitWebView *view = webkit_web_view_new ();
    WebKitUserContentManager *manager = webkit_web_view_get_user_content_manager ();
    g_signal_connect (manager, "script-message-received::foobar",
                      G_CALLBACK (handle_script_message), NULL);
    webkit_user_content_manager_register_script_message_handler (manager, "foobar");

Registering a script message handler will fail if the requested name has been already registered before.

Available since: 2.8

#### Parameters

`name`

  Type: `const gchar*`

  Name of the script message channel.

  The data is owned by the caller of the method.
  The value is a NUL terminated UTF-8 string.

#### Return value

Type: `gboolean`

`TRUE` if message handler was registered successfully, or `FALSE` otherwise.