Re: [IndexedDB] Reason for aborting transactions

On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 5:37 PM, ben turner <bent.mozilla@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Normal exceptions have error messages that are not consistient across
> > implementations and are not localized.  What's the difference?
>
> These messages aren't part of any exception though, it's just some
> property on a transaction object. (None of our DOM exceptions, IDB or
> otherwise, have message properties btw, they're only converted to some
> message if they make it to the error console).
>
> > For stuff like internal errors, they seem especially important.
>
> You're thinking of having multiple messages for the INTERAL_ERROR_ABORT
> code?
>

I think that'd be ideal, yes.  Since internal errors will be UA specific,
string matching wouldn't be so bad there.

If no one likes this idea, I'm happy hiding away the message in some
webkitAbortMessage attribute so it's super clear it's just us who implements
this.  (Speaking of which, maybe you guys should do that with getAll.)

J