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Receive iframe messages without using old v1 library

I just want to embed an iframe and listen for messages myself ("onResize", "onSubmit", "onSuccess", "onCancel", "onError", ...)


I don't want to pull this: https://js.chargebee.com/v1/chargebee.js It contains old code I don't use.


How come if I don't use this library the embedded iframe doesn't post messages to the parent?


Thank you!

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Hello Mike


You can certainly listen to the messages without the library. 


Please check this sample code snippet that listens to the messages sent from the iframe.

 

var eventMethod = window.addEventListener ? "addEventListener" : "attachEvent";
var eventer = window[eventMethod];
var messageEvent = eventMethod == "attachEvent" ? "onmessage" : "message";

// Listen to message from child window
eventer(messageEvent,function(e) {
  // e.data will be json string
  var messObj = JSON.parse(e.data);
  if(messObj.onload){
    // onload callback
  }
  // |||ly check for

  // messObj.resize
  // messObj.onSubmit
  // messObj.success
  // messObj.cancel
},false);

 

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Hello Mike


You can certainly listen to the messages without the library. 


Please check this sample code snippet that listens to the messages sent from the iframe.

 

var eventMethod = window.addEventListener ? "addEventListener" : "attachEvent";
var eventer = window[eventMethod];
var messageEvent = eventMethod == "attachEvent" ? "onmessage" : "message";

// Listen to message from child window
eventer(messageEvent,function(e) {
  // e.data will be json string
  var messObj = JSON.parse(e.data);
  if(messObj.onload){
    // onload callback
  }
  // |||ly check for

  // messObj.resize
  // messObj.onSubmit
  // messObj.success
  // messObj.cancel
},false);

 

I was doing that but still it wasn't working.


After re-reading the original library, when embedding the iframe, one must specify the URL of the container like:


<iframe src="<url-of-form>#<url-of-this-page>"/>


Thanks Vaishnavi :)



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