Re: IndexedDB: Syntax for specifying persistent/temporary storage from Boris Zbarsky on 2013-12-06 (public-webapps@w3.org from October to December 2013)

From: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 14:43:40 -0500
To: Joshua Bell <jsbell@google.com>
CC: "public-webapps@w3.org" <public-webapps@w3.org>
Message-ID: <52A228EC.7070300@mit.edu>

On 12/6/13 2:37 PM, Joshua Bell wrote:
> This behavior is specified in prose, not IDL:
>
> https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/IndexedDB/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#widl-IDBFactory-open-IDBOpenDBRequest-DOMString-name-unsigned-long-long-version
>
> "If the value of version is 0 (zero), the implementation must throw a
> TypeError."

Oh, huh.  I was mislead here by Gecko not having indexeddb on webidl 
yet, so in fact seems to allow null.  :(  OK, great.

>       undefined is treated as not passed.
>
> ... and we could default to 0 here, if we went down this path.

Ah, make sense.

-Boris

Received on Friday, 6 December 2013 19:44:10 UTC