Re: [Bug 10400] New: [IndexedDB] IDBCursor.continue should return an IDBRequest

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:06 PM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Ben Turner put some comments in the bug, but I'll add a bit here too.
> The idea was that cursor.continue() should reuse the same request that
> was created when .openCursor was called. That makes using cursors
> significantly easier since you just have to register one 'success'
> handler, instead of registering a new one for each call to
> .continue().
>

Yes, after Ben mentioned it, I vaguely remembered us talking about this a
while back.  :-)


> We also remove the return value from .continue() and make it "return
> void". It doesn't make sense to return a bool indicating if this was
> the last entry or not since we only know that information
> asynchronously.
>

Do you have thoughts on whether it should return an IDBRequest object
though?  Obviously the request object it returns would be the same one
originally returned from .openCursor().  As I mentioned in my reply, I could
see it being confusing, but for completeness I wanted to hear your thoughts.

J