File name index

[adryd325]

Is there an index or a map that contains the file locations or file names within a built version of chromium? If so where would it be located and how would it be encoded?

I'm not nearly smart enough to sift through chromium's source, but, from what I found in i18n-grit, no such index is contained within the pak file itself. Right now I'm assuming the index is kept within an executable file or some other binary.

[myfreeer]

With a quick look into chrome/browser/browser_resources.grd#L4, it seems that the ID of each resource is generated on build-time, when headers defining the resource name, like IDR_FIRST_RUN_HTML, to whose generated ID, are also generated. In sources like chrome/browser/ui/webui/conflicts/conflicts_ui.cc, generated headers are included, and resourced are used by name, compiled to numeric ID.

[adryd325]

There has to be some sort of mappings, as within the compiled version of chrome, you're able to access chrome://resources/.

After some looking at grit-i18n there's a "resource_ids" file which references many "grd" files, I haven't looked much at the code, but I'm assuming these "grd" files contain some form of mappings from resource id to resource path, though I am unsure where these files are stored (I'm assuming they are somewhere within the "pak" file or compiled into an executable)

If I find anything else I'll add it to this issue.

[myfreeer]

As mentioned in docs/webui_in_components.md, web-ui accessible resources are handled specially by classes extending content::WebUIController.

Probably related: tools/grit/grit/format/resource_map.py