1# Want 2 3Want is a carrier for information transfer between objects (application components). Want can be used as a parameter of [startAbility](js-apis-inner-application-uiAbilityContext.md#uiabilitycontextstartability) to specify a startup target and information that needs to be carried during startup, for example, **bundleName** and **abilityName**, which respectively indicate the bundle name of the target ability and the ability name in the bundle. When ability A needs to start ability B and transfer some data to ability B, it can use Want a carrier to transfer the data. 4 5> **NOTE** 6> 7> The APIs of this module are supported since API version 6 and deprecated since API version 9. You are advised to use [@ohos.app.ability.Want](js-apis-app-ability-want.md) instead. Newly added APIs will be marked with a superscript to indicate their earliest API version. 8 9## Modules to Import 10 11```ts 12import Want from '@ohos.app.ability.Want'; 13``` 14 15**System capability**: SystemCapability.Ability.AbilityBase 16 17| Name | Type | Mandatory| Description | 18| ----------- | -------------------- | ---- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | 19| deviceId | string | No | ID of the device running the ability. | 20| bundleName | string | No | Bundle name.| 21| abilityName | string | No | Name of the ability. If both **bundleName** and **abilityName** are specified in a **Want** object, the **Want** object can match a specific ability. The value of **abilityName** must be unique in an application.| 22| uri | string | No | URI. If **uri** is specified in a **Want** object, the **Want** object will match the specified URI information, including **scheme**, **schemeSpecificPart**, **authority**, and **path**.| 23| type | string | No | MIME type, that is, the type of the file to open, for example, **'text/xml'** and **'image/*'**. For details about the MIME type definition, see https://www.iana.org/assignments/media-types/media-types.xhtml?utm_source=ld246.com. | 24| flags | number | No | How the **Want** object will be handled. By default, numbers are passed in. For details, see [flags](js-apis-app-ability-wantConstant.md#wantconstantflags).| 25| action | string | No | Action to take, such as viewing and sharing application details. In implicit Want, you can define this field and use it together with **uri** or **parameters** to specify the operation to be performed on the data. | 26| parameters | {[key: string]: Object} | No | Want parameters in the form of custom key-value (KV) pairs. By default, the following keys are carried:<br>- **ohos.aafwk.callerPid**: PID of the caller.<br>- **ohos.aafwk.param.callerToken**: token of the caller.<br>- **ohos.aafwk.param.callerUid**: UID in [bundleInfo](js-apis-bundle-BundleInfo.md#bundleinfo-1), that is, the application UID in the bundle information.<br>- **component.startup.newRules**: whether to enable the new control rule.<br>- **moduleName**: module name of the caller. No matter what this field is set to, the correct module name will be sent to the peer.<br>- **ohos.dlp.params.sandbox**: available only for DLP files. | 27| entities | Array\<string> | No | Additional category information (such as browser and video player) of the target ability. It is a supplement to **action** in implicit Want and is used to filter ability types. | 28| moduleName<sup>9+</sup> | string | No | Module to which the ability belongs.| 29 30**Example** 31 32- Basic usage (called in a UIAbility object, where context in the example is the context object of the UIAbility). 33 34 ```ts 35 let want = { 36 'deviceId': '', // An empty deviceId indicates the local device. 37 'bundleName': 'com.extreme.test', 38 'abilityName': 'MainAbility', 39 'moduleName': 'entry' // moduleName is optional. 40 }; 41 this.context.startAbility(want, (error) => { 42 // Start an ability explicitly. The bundleName, abilityName, and moduleName parameters work together to uniquely identify an ability. 43 console.log('error.code = ' + error.code) 44 }); 45 ``` 46 47- Passing a file descriptor (FD) (called in the UIAbility object, where context in the example is the context object of the UIAbility): 48 49 ```ts 50 import fs from '@ohos.file.fs'; 51 52 // ... 53 let fd; 54 try { 55 fd = fs.openSync('/data/storage/el2/base/haps/pic.png').fd; 56 } catch(e) { 57 console.log('openSync fail:' + JSON.stringify(e)); 58 } 59 let want = { 60 'deviceId': '', // An empty deviceId indicates the local device. 61 'bundleName': 'com.extreme.test', 62 'abilityName': 'MainAbility', 63 'moduleName': 'entry', // moduleName is optional. 64 'parameters': { 65 'keyFd':{'type':'FD', 'value':fd} 66 } 67 }; 68 this.context.startAbility(want, (error) => { 69 // Start an ability explicitly. The bundleName, abilityName, and moduleName parameters work together to uniquely identify an ability. 70 console.log('error.code = ' + error.code) 71 }); 72 // ... 73 ``` 74 75- For more details and examples, see [Want](../../application-models/want-overview.md). 76 77
