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Re: Stats interface - modelling on IndexedDB API?

From: Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2012 09:45:15 +0200
Message-ID: <50430E8B.6000003@alvestrand.no>
To: public-webrtc@w3.org
Attaching the latest proposal after the changes.

On 08/30/2012 01:03 PM, Stefan Hakansson LK wrote:
> On 08/30/2012 12:53 PM, Harald Alvestrand wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> when implementing the Stats interface, I've concluded that it's not
>> quite trivial to do it the way I'd written it up, due to the way WebKit
>> hangs together.
>>
>> Would anyone mind terribly if I changed it around to do it the way the
>> IndexedDB API does it?
>>
>> Basically, it seems to be:
>>
>> - Request returns a "request object" with a status and a result
>> - When the data is ready, it fires a "success" event at the request 
>> object
>> - The caller can then read the data out from the request object
> I think the new approach you propose is better than the old one. It 
> aligns with e.g. IndexDB and FileReader.
>
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/#idl-def-IDBRequest
>>
>> Seems a bit easier to get threaded through WebKit than the "simpler"
>> method of "just" returning a complex structure in a callback.
>>
>>                        Harald
>>
>>
>
>


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