How to get data in the context menu?

[gabrielcarloto]

I found this (#574 (comment)) but I don't know how to get this ContextData. I thought it would be something like this:

const { method, parameters, ContextData } = JSON.parse(process.argv[2]);

if (method === "context_menu") {
  // do something with the context data
}

But the data sent from Flow in the context menu is

{
  "method": "context_menu",
  "parameters": [
    null
  ],
  "settings": null
}

[taooceros]

If I remember correctly, the parameters will be something you sent with the results. There's a optional field of a result called ContextData that will be sent here for a selected result. So you need to include that for results to see the parameters here.

[Garulf]

Please see Flow-Launcher/docs#49 for an example of Context Menu being used.

[gabrielcarloto]

It is still a bit confusing to me because I'm not familiar with python (my plugins are written in Typescript). Where does the list from data in def context_menu(self, data) come from? I know you passed the list in 'ContextData': ['context1', 'context2'], but it is not sent in the JSON RPC. Like I said in my first question, the data sent from Flow is

{
  "method": "context_menu",
  "parameters": [
    null
  ],
  "settings": null
}

(I got this by displaying the argv in the title of a result in the context menu: Title: process.argv[2])