Re: Synchronous versus asynchronous getSourceInfos

While more grammatically correct, to me getSourceInfo reads like it's
getting the info about a particular source. How about getSources() (or
getUserSources) instead?

Also, as this makes getSourceInfos more like getUserMedia, is there a good
reason to have this as a static method on MediaStreamTrack as opposed to
Navigator, like getUserMedia? (I may have just missed this in the original
discussion)




On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Travis Leithead <
travis.leithead@microsoft.com> wrote:

> >> While we are there, s/Infos/Info/  - "Info" is short for "Information",
> which is already plural.
>
> Thank you! That's been bugging me... :-)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Thomson [mailto:martin.thomson@gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 4, 2013 1:06 PM
> To: Eric Rescorla
> Cc: Justin Uberti; public-media-capture@w3.org; Tommy Widenflycht
> (ᛏᚮᛘᛘᚤ); Victoria Kirst
> Subject: Re: Synchronous versus asynchronous getSourceInfos
>
> Yes, this is something that should be made asynchronous.
>
> While we are there, s/Infos/Info/  - "Info" is short for "Information",
> which is already plural.
>
> On 4 June 2013 11:36, Eric Rescorla <ekr@rtfm.com> wrote:
> > This seems like a good idea.
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 10:30 AM, Justin Uberti <juberti@google.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> getSourceInfos is currently defined as synchronous [1] , but it will
> >> need to reach down into the media subsystem to enumerate capture
> devices.
> >> Previously, we have suggested that APIs like this should be async, to
> >> avoid blocking the JS thread while waiting for the low-level
> >> operation to complete. For getSourceInfos, I think this is still true
> >> - even if we pre-enumerate devices when the browser starts, it is
> >> possible that a page may make a request before the enumeration has
> >> completed, and will still need to block.
> >>
> >> Therefore I suggest that as part of the futures discussion, we
> >> consider whether getSourceInfos should be async, either
> >>
> >> void getSourceInfos(successCallback, failureCallback)
> >>
> >> or
> >>
> >> Future getSourceInfos()
> >>
> >> [1] http://dev.w3.org/2011/webrtc/editor/getusermedia.html#methods-1
> >>
> >
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