Re: Promise return types

The <any> types were actually part of the attempt to allow Microsoft (and
others) to explore with other return types - such as Promise<Stream>

I do think it's weird that exportKey returns the serialized JWK - rather
than an object that matches a JWK definition. As I understand it, this was
largely because methods can only return Interfaces, and so we would have
had to define JWK interface?


On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 11:22 AM, Vijay Bharadwaj <
Vijay.Bharadwaj@microsoft.com> wrote:

>  Someone asked me a question recently that made me look more closely at
> our return types for the subtleCrypto functions. Should we look at
> tightening these up a bit instead of having them all be Promise<any>?
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> Specifically, is there any reason to have exportKey and wrapKey return
> Promise<any> instead of Promise<ArrayBuffer>? The way it’s set up now, it
> would be very tempting for someone adding a future algorithm to, say,
> return an object for the JWK export instead of serializing it first as all
> the existing algorithms do. This may develop into a hassle for programmers
> as they would have to track what each algorithm does for each format.
>