Sensor API feedback: watch function

Hi All,

I have a couple of questions regarding the watch function.

First off, what's interaction between the 'interval' and 'threshold'
parameters? I.e. what happens if you set both parameters? Is the
intent that the onsensordata function should fire whenever the
threshold is cross, but at least every x milliseconds? Or is the
intent that the interval specifies how often the implementation is
supposed to sample the sensor, but only fire the onsensordata event if
the threshold has been crossed? Or are you simply not allowed to
specify threshold and interval at the same time?

I think my preference would be that if both parameters are specified,
the threshold argument is the one that controls when onsensordata is
fired, and the interval is a hint which tells the implementation how
often it should check the sensor.

Also, the spec says that the threshold only applies on sensors which
have a numeric reading which makes sense (and is also a good place to
start). But it doesn't define what happens if the page specifies a
threshold for a sensor which is not numeric. Should the argument be
ignored? Should we throw an exception?

My preference would be for an exception.

Also, the spec currently says that we should fire an event whenever a
sensor reading goes below the threshold. Shouldn't we also fire it
when the reading goes back up above the threshold? I.e. if a page
specifies .watch({threshold: 10}) on a temperature sensor, I would
expect to get an event both when the temperature changes from above 10
deg C to below 10 deg C, as well as when it changes from below 10 deg
C to above 10 deg C.

/ Jonas

Received on Friday, 2 March 2012 12:20:53 UTC