Re: onEnded and connections

On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 3:03 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com> wrote:
>
>> Say you have a source node and set up an event handler for onended.
>>  Does the event handler fire if the buffer is not actually connected to
>> anything?
>>
> If the source is never connected to anything and it is GCed, onended
>> should not be called, right?
>>
>
> Whether ended is fired must definitely not depend on when GC happens. GC
> timing causing observable behavior changes is anathema.
>
> The answer to your first question is less clear. The question itself is
> also ambiguous: do you mean "not directly connected to an output" or "not
> indirectly connected to a DestinationNode or MediaStreamAudioSourceNode"?
> You'd also have to resolve *when* exactly the graph
>

I was asking Chris this question.  I was thinking the node was not directly
or indirectly connected to the destination node.


> connectivity check is performed. In any case, the simplest API is to fire
> the event no matter what, and that's what Gecko does.
>

So basically, as long as you call start(...), the event is fired when it is
ends, no matter if the node is completely disconnected from destination or
not.


>
> Rob
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