Re: Checking inputs for connection

The PR is under the review. Raymond asked more clarification on the
input/output description.
https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/pull/1087

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 9:47 AM Joe Berkovitz <joe@noteflight.com> wrote:

> Yes, please!
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> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 11:45 AM, Hongchan Choi <hongchan@google.com>
> wrote:
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> Thanks Joe!
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> We were also confused about the condition and you are correct. Should I
> submit a PR for the fix?
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> -Hongchan
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> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 6:37 AM Joe Berkovitz <joe@noteflight.com> wrote:
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> Hi Hongchan,
>
> I think I was perhaps looking at the wrong commit yesterday regarding
> #1078 and checking the inputs in the example for connection. I'm sorry
> about the confusion, and to avoid any more I'm just posting a regular email.
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> The way that input connections are speced today as part of process(), a
> completely disconnected input exhibits zero channels (*not* zero frames)
> when passed to process(). Thus, one must check inputs[inputIndex].length to
> see if the input numbered "inputIndex" is connected or disconnected.
>
> Checking inputs[inputIndex][channelIndex].length will throw an exception
> if the input is disconnected, since no channels will be present and
>  inputs[inputIndex][channelIndex] will be undefined.
>
> The reason inputs work this way is that for some nodes (e.g. ones using a
> max-channel-count approach), a disconnected input has an undefined number
> of channels according to the channel-configuration algorithms.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: *Hongchan Choi* <notifications@github.com>
> Date: Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 6:14 PM
> Subject: [WebAudio/web-audio-api] Merge pull request #1078 from
> hoch/955-vumeternode-example (e087928)
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> Cc: Joe Berkovitz <joe@noteflight.com>, Mention <
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> Merge pull request #1078 from hoch/955-vumeternode-example
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> Fix #955: Refining AudioWorklet examples.
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> At the teleconference on 11/17/2016, @joeberkovitz agreed to the change
> proposed in the last [PR](8a04bf8).
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