Re: Lifetime of Blob URL

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Arun Ranganathan <arun@mozilla.com> wrote:

>  Jian,
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> On 8/28/10 8:59 PM, Jian Li wrote:
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> Adding explicit methods to window and WorkerGlobalScope seems to be a
> better solution that solves potential problems we currently have with
> blob.url. Given that, we're going to experiment the proposed new APIs in the
> WebKit implementation, That is, we will add the following two methods to
> window and WorkerGlobalScope in the WebKit implementation:
>      URLString createBlobURL(in Blob blob);
>     void revokeBlobURL(in URLString url);
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> I think we're agreed here, although can anyone tell me whether there's a
> precedent on the Window object to have a method that's so specific to a
> top-level object (such as Blob)?  It definitely seems awkward, but I'm
> willing to add it to the specification given that there isn't really a
> better solution than adding these methods.  Also, the names seem fine to
> me.  Can you clarify what your implementation will do if createBlobURL is
> called twice (or more) for the same Blob object?
>

Yes, we know that everyone is working hard to try to get the best API out.
It is just that we do not see any better solution than that.

Our implementation assumes that calling window.createBlobURL() each time
will return a new blob URL.

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>  In addition, BlobError and BlobException sound better because these names
> are consistent with current "Blob" naming scheme in File API. So we're also
> going to adopt these new names in the WebKit implementation when we rename
> FileReader to BlobReader per the spec.
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> *sigh.  Naming continues to be hard.  Not everyone's thrilled with the
> proliferation of Blob in the API [1] including other major implementors (my
> co-editor included ;-))  but I changed it mainly due to Darin/Jian/other
> objections.  I suppose you folks are pretty adamant on the Blob* name?
>

I do not have any strong preference towards the naming. I just feel that it
would be good if we could have consistent naming across File API in order to
avoid the confusion to the developers. This is the reason I ask.

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> -- A*
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> [1]
> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-webapps/2010JulSep/0153.html
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