Re: Stats interface - modelling on IndexedDB API?

On Aug 30, 2012, at 4:53 AM, Harald Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no> 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
> 
> 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
> 
> 

I think that sounds like a good pattern to use but don't have strong feelings either way. As long as there is some way for the JS app to get the stats, seems good to me. 

Received on Monday, 3 September 2012 15:10:36 UTC