Chrome onMessage not working (?) - google-chrome-extension

Question

I've read about onMessage.addListener method in Chrome to pass some data from extensions to script. What I have now:
popup.js
window.onload = function(){
document.getElementById('searchButton').onclick = searchText;
};
function searchText(){
var search = document.getElementById('searchText').value; // f.ex "123"
if(search){
chrome.tabs.query({active:true,currentWindow:true},function(tabs){
chrome.tabs.executeScript(tabs[0].id,{file:search.js});
chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tabs[0].id,{method:'search',searchText:search});
});
}
}
search.js
chrome.runtime.onMessage.addListener(function(message,sender,sendResponse){
alert('text');
});
However, alert ('text') is never fired. What's the problem?

Answer 1

You should quote "search.js" and put the chrome.tabs.sendMessage call in the callback of chrome.tabs.executeScript:
function searchText(){
var search = document.getElementById('searchText').value; // f.ex "123"
if (search) {
chrome.tabs.query({active:true,currentWindow:true}, function(tabs) {
chrome.tabs.executeScript(tabs[0].id, {
file: 'search.js'
}, function() {
chrome.tabs.sendMessage(tabs[0].id, {
method: 'search',
searchText: search
});
});
});
}
}
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