[Bug 20525] MIDIAccess methods aren't restricted to instances created by requestMIDIAccess

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20525

Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
                 CC|                            |w3c@marcosc.com
         Resolution|FIXED                       |---

--- Comment #2 from Marcos Caceres <w3c@marcosc.com> ---
The object on the global scope is a different object :) This is where WebIDL
gets funky. That's called the "interface object" and it does not expose the
methods. 

See: 
http://www.w3.org/TR/WebIDL/#es-interfaces 

(yes, it's freeken complicated and I've been trying to grok that for about a
year) 

you basically end up with this:
//This one holds constants and statics
var interfaceObject=  function MidiAccess(){
  if(this instanceof MidiAccess){
     var msg="DOM object constructor cannot be called as a function."   
     throw new TypeError(msg);
  }
}
//This one makes actual instances
var interfacePrototypeObj = function MIDIAccess(){}   
window.MIDIAccess = interfaceObject; 


You can confirm this in the browser by querying any object. For example: 

>> Event
function Event() { [native code] }
>>Event()
TypeError: DOM object constructor cannot be called as a function.

Note that Event does not expose preventDefault() or any other instance method.
Only the constants are exposed.  

Please revert the changes.

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Received on Thursday, 27 December 2012 17:38:26 UTC