Re: Network Information API

Fwiw, Iım considering a network information api which is based on network
interfaces.

interface NetworkAdapter {
  string uuid;
  bool connected;
  string[] localaddresses;
  string[] gateways;
  /* possibly exposing dns server information */
}

With a notice going out for each up/down of each interface.

When I take my phone and it switches from only having cellular to having
cellular + wifi, Iıd get a notification for the new adapter, that
notification is a hint that routing may have changed and performance
characteristics may be different.

For BlackBerry devices, there is a third network which can easily go
up/down which is the Work network (itıs roughly a VPN), and then thereıs
also a normal VPN connection available ‹ each would notify (but only if
theyıre available to the given application ‹ the Work network may or may
not be exposed to non Work applications at the user/adminıs discretion).

I havenıt started prototyping this, but I believe that in theory this
covers all the actual use cases I can imagine.

When routing changes, itıs quite likely that performance characteristics
will change.

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Received on Friday, 6 December 2013 16:40:12 UTC