The Worker interface of the Web Workers API represents a background task that can be easily created and can send messages back to its creator. Creating a worker is as simple as calling the Worker() constructor and specifying a script to be run in the worker thread.

Documentation Worker by Mozilla Contributors, licensed under CC-BY-SA 2.5.

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Constructor

new (scriptURL:String)

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DOMError

Variables

onmessage:Function

An EventListener called whenever a MessageEvent of type message bubbles through the worker — i.e. when a message is sent to the parent document from the worker via DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope.postMessage. The message is stored in the event's MessageEvent.data property.

Methods

postMessage (message:Dynamic, ?transfer:Array<Dynamic>):Void

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DOMError

terminate ():Void

Immediately terminates the worker. This does not offer the worker an opportunity to finish its operations; it is simply stopped at once. ServiceWorker instances do not support this method.

Inherited Variables

Inherited Methods

Defined by EventTarget

addEventListener (type:String, listener:Function, capture:Bool = false):Void

addEventListener (type:String, listener:EventListener, capture:Bool = false, ?wantsUntrusted:Bool):Void

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DOMError

dispatchEvent (event:Event):Bool

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DOMError

removeEventListener (type:String, listener:Function, capture:Bool = false):Void

removeEventListener (type:String, listener:EventListener, capture:Bool = false):Void

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DOMError