WorkerGlobalScope

The WorkerGlobalScope interface of the Web Workers API is an interface representing the scope of any worker. Workers have no browsing context; this scope contains the information usually conveyed by Window objects — in this case event handlers, the console or the associated WorkerNavigator (en-US) object. Each WorkerGlobalScope has its own event loop.

This interface is usually specialized by each worker type: DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope (en-US) for dedicated workers, SharedWorkerGlobalScope (en-US) for shared workers, and ServiceWorkerGlobalScope (en-US) for ServiceWorker. The self property returns the specialized scope for each context.

This interface inherits properties from the EventTarget interface and WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope and WindowEventHandlers mixins.

WorkerGlobalScope.navigator (en-US) Только для чтения

Returns the WorkerNavigator (en-US) associated with the worker. It is a specific navigator object, mostly a subset of the Navigator for browsing scopes, but adapted to workers.

WorkerGlobalScope.self (en-US) Только для чтения

Returns a reference to the WorkerGlobalScope itself. Most of the time it is a specific scope like DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope (en-US),  SharedWorkerGlobalScope (en-US) or ServiceWorkerGlobalScope (en-US).

WorkerGlobalScope.location (en-US) Только для чтения

Returns the WorkerLocation (en-US) associated with the worker. It is a specific location object, mostly a subset of the Location for browsing scopes, but adapted to workers.

WorkerGlobalScope.performance (en-US) Только для чтения

Returns the Performance associated with the worker. It is a regular performance object, except that only a subset of its property and methods are available to workers.

WorkerGlobalScope.console (en-US) Только для чтения

Returns the Console associated with the worker.

WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope.caches Только для чтения

Returns the CacheStorage object associated with the current context. This object enables functionality such as storing assets for offline use, and generating custom responses to requests.

WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope.indexedDB (en-US) Только для чтения

Provides a mechanism for applications to asynchronously access capabilities of indexed databases; returns an IDBFactory (en-US) object.

WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope.isSecureContext (en-US) Только для чтения

Returns a boolean indicating whether the current context is secure (true) or not (false).

WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope.origin (en-US) Только для чтения

Returns the global object's origin, serialized as a string. (This does not yet appear to be implemented in any browser.)

error

Fired when an error occured.
Also available via the WorkerGlobalScope.onerror (en-US) property.

offline

Fired when the browser has lost access to the network and the value of navigator.onLine switched to false.
Also available via the WorkerGlobalScope.onoffline (en-US) property.

online

Fired when the browser has gained access to the network and the value of navigator.onLine switched to true.
Also available via the WorkerGlobalScope.ononline (en-US) property.

languagechange

Fired at the global/worker scope object when the user's preferred languages change.
Also available via the WorkerGlobalScope.onlanguagechange (en-US) property.

close

Is an EventHandler (en-US) representing the code to be called when the close event is raised.
Also available via the WorkerGlobalScope.onclose (en-US) property.

rejectionhandled

An event handler for handled Promise rejection events.
Also available via the WorkerGlobalScope.onrejectionhandled property.

unhandledrejection

An event handler for unhandled Promise rejection events.
Also available via the WorkerGlobalScope.onunhandledrejection property.

This interface inherits methods from the EventTarget interface and WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope and WindowEventHandlers mixins.

WorkerGlobalScope.importScripts()

Imports one or more scripts into the worker's scope. You can specify as many as you'd like, separated by commas. For example: importScripts('foo.js', 'bar.js');

WorkerGlobalScope.dump() (en-US)

Allows you to write a message to stdout — i.e. in your terminal. This is the same as Firefox's window.dump (en-US), but for workers.

WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope.atob()

Decodes a string of data which has been encoded using base-64 encoding.

WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope.btoa()

Creates a base-64 encoded ASCII string from a string of binary data.

WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope.clearInterval() (en-US)

Cancels the repeated execution set using WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope.setInterval().

WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope.clearTimeout()

Cancels the delayed execution set using WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope.setTimeout().

WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope.createImageBitmap() (en-US)

Accepts a variety of different image sources, and returns a Promise (en-US) which resolves to an ImageBitmap. Optionally the source is cropped to the rectangle of pixels originating at (sx, sy) with width sw, and height sh.

WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope.fetch()

Starts the process of fetching a resource from the network.

WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope.setInterval()

Schedules a function to execute every time a given number of milliseconds elapses.

WindowOrWorkerGlobalScope.setTimeout()

Schedules a function to execute in a given amount of time.

WorkerGlobalScope.close() (en-US)

Discards any tasks queued in the WorkerGlobalScope's event loop, effectively closing this particular scope. In newer browser versions, close() is available on DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope and SharedWorkerGlobalScope (en-US) instead. This change was made to stop close() being available on service workers, as it isn't supposed to be used there and always throws an exception when called (see баг 1336043).

You won't access WorkerGlobalScope directly in your code; however, its properties and methods are inherited by more specific global scopes such as DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope (en-US) and SharedWorkerGlobalScope (en-US). For example, you could import another script into the worker and print out the contents of the worker scope's navigator object using the following two lines:

importScripts('foo.js');
console.log(navigator);

• Other global object interface: Window, DedicatedWorkerGlobalScope (en-US), SharedWorkerGlobalScope (en-US), , ServiceWorkerGlobalScope (en-US)
• Other Worker-related interfaces: Worker, WorkerLocation (en-US), WorkerGlobalScope, and ServiceWorkerGlobalScope (en-US).
• Using web workers.