Re: Pick Contacts Intent

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 4:56 AM, Robin Berjon <robin@berjon.com> wrote:

> Hi Cathy,
>
> On Jun 27, 2012, at 23:41 , <Cathy.Chan@nokia.com> <Cathy.Chan@nokia.com>
> wrote:
> > I notice that the ContactIntentExtras dictionary contains a fields item
> > which is DOMString[]. Meanwhile, the getExtra() method of Intent is
> spec'd
> > to return a DOMString.
>
> Whoa, good catch!
>
> > I suppose it would be necessary to modify the
> > getExtra() method to work with the dictionary definition (and to be more
> > flexible in general)? Say, returning any instead of DOMString?
>
> Actually, one thing that we discussed before (and that is pending on
> implementers telling us if it's actually possible — Greg had concerns that
> there may be issues) was just exposing an |extras| attribute instead of
> getExtra(). That attribute would contain all that was provided for extras,
> presumably filtered through structured cloning or some such.
>
> If doable, I personally much prefer that solution. Not to offend anyone,
> but using getExtra() to access what is most likely initially provided as an
> object literal feels very much Java-ish to me!
>

Yeah, I like this better too. You want to propose the spec change, Robin?



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