Re: [Bug 11348] New: [IndexedDB] Overhaul of the event model from ben turner on 2011-02-11 (public-webapps@w3.org from January to March 2011)

From: ben turner <bent.mozilla@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:06:48 -0800
To: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
Cc: Jeremy Orlow <jorlow@chromium.org>, public-webapps@w3.org
Message-ID: <AANLkTinnQoO-_4LSgVw7p_j+xfwpWSRRnNfRDZte9Sg9@mail.gmail.com>

> I think generally avoiding throwing exceptions is a good thing. So for
> .errorCode I would say returning unidentified or 0 is the way to go.

I would say we should add a code to IDBDatabaseException, NO_ERR = 0.
Or else indicate somehow that 0 is reserved for "no exception". Then
return that from errorCode.

> But it does seem like a
> pretty bad bug if you do access these properties before having a
> result. So maybe exception is in fact better here.

Definitely agreed. People will want to know that they're checking a
result too early.

-Ben

Received on Friday, 11 February 2011 03:07:40 UTC