Re: [discovery-api][ISSUE-130][ACTION-654] wildcard api

This is a reminder of an issue discussed before, waiting for Rich's opinion
Best regards
JC

Le 24/10/13 17:48 , Jean-Claude Dufourd a écrit :
> Dear all,
>
> Here is proposed text for ISSUE-130, as part of ACTION-654:
> Propose text for network service discovery to define wildcard api and 
> feature detection
>
> This is modelled against the latest text for getNetworkServices.
> I am very flexible for the name of that function, as well as other 
> aspects of the proposal.
>
> ====================
>
> promise = window.navigator.discover(fragment)
>
> Immediately returns a new Promise object and then the user is prompted 
> to select discovered network services that have advertised support for 
> a service whose type contains the given fragment.
> If the user accepts, the promise object is resolved, with a 
> NetworkServices object as its argument.
> If the user declines, or an error occurs, the promise object is rejected.
>
> The implementation of the discover function is optional, as it 
> requires the user agent to monitor the network for device and service 
> announcements. A web application may test the existence of the 
> discover function by testing whether window.navigator.discover is a 
> function.
>
> When the discover(fragment) method is called, the user agent must run 
> the following steps:
>
> 1. Let Network Service Promise be a new Promise object.
> 2. Let Network Service Promise's Resolver be the default resolver of 
> Network Service Promise.
> 3. Return Network Service Promise, and run the remaining steps 
> asynchronously.
> 4. Process: Let services found be an empty array.
> 5. For each available service in the list of available service records 
> run the following steps:
> 5.1 If available service's type attribute contains the fragment 
> argument then let matched service equal the value of available 
> service. Otherwise, abort the remaining sub-steps and continue above 
> at the next
> available service.
> 5.2 same as 9.2 of getNetworkServices
> 6+. same as 10+. of getNetworkServices
>
> ====================
>
> Best regards
> JC


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