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| author | Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> | 2019-02-18 01:45:14 +0300 |
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| committer | Anna Henningsen <anna@addaleax.net> | 2019-02-22 23:42:09 +0300 |
| commit | 8ebd339031cf9826629ad780dd35fee130e95985 (patch) | |
| tree | 6a8a1b59040f55404e3cb3e3cf2860bd4879bd40 /doc/api/addons.md | |
| parent | 455b927be0111a6aa8f1e30ae5b21659afeba40d (diff) | |
worker: improve integration with native addons
Allow loading add-ons from multiple Node.js instances if they are
declared context-aware; in particular, this applies to N-API addons.
Also, plug a memory leak that occurred when registering N-API addons.
Refs: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/23319
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/26175
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/21481
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/21783
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/25662
Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/20239
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Gireesh Punathil <gpunathi@in.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/api/addons.md b/doc/api/addons.md index 4941d3de9ad..1c811b50c21 100644 --- a/doc/api/addons.md +++ b/doc/api/addons.md @@ -251,6 +251,11 @@ down. If necessary, such hooks can be removed using `RemoveEnvironmentCleanupHook()` before they are run, which has the same signature. +In order to be loaded from multiple Node.js environments, +such as a main thread and a Worker thread, an add-on needs to either: +- Be an N-API addon, or +- Be declared as context-aware using `NODE_MODULE_INIT()` as described above + ### Building Once the source code has been written, it must be compiled into the binary |