Re: Event handlers in RTCPeerConnection

Hi

Each of the "onsomething" attributes needs to be generic EventHandler 
attributes. To set such an event handler attribute is just one way to 
register a listener for an event.

For example:

pc.onaddstream = myHandler;

is equivalent to using the EventTarget function addEventListener():

pc.addEventListener("addstream", myHandler, false);

It's up to prose to make clear which event type an event handler 
attribute handles and which interface is used for that particular event.

Non-normative section 15 (Event summary) has a table that lists the 
event name to interface type mappings. It's a convenience thing, it must 
be possible to derive the same information from the normative parts.

/Adam

On 2012-09-26 23:18, Martin Thomson wrote:
> Section 14 does include some events, but the only linking between
> those and the classes that generate then is in prose.
>
> On 26 September 2012 13:41, Randell Jesup <randell-ietf@jesup.org> wrote:
>> On 9/26/2012 3:56 PM, Martin Thomson wrote:
>>>
>>> None of the event handlers for RTCPeerConnection have specific types
>>> associated with the event.
>>>
>>> This might be OK for the "stuff just happened events":
>>>                attribute EventHandler          onnegotationneeded;
>>>                attribute EventHandler          onopen;
>>>
>>> Each of the following produces an event that includes additional
>>> attributes:
>>>                attribute EventHandler          onicecandidate;
>>>    - candidate : RTCIceCandidate
>>>                attribute EventHandler          onstatechange;
>>>    - state : RTCPeerState
>>>                attribute EventHandler          onaddstream;
>>>    - stream : MediaStream
>>>                attribute EventHandler          onremovestream;
>>>    - stream : MediaStream ?
>>>                attribute EventHandler          ongatheringchange;
>>>    - state : RTCGatheringState
>>>                attribute EventHandler          onicechange;
>>>    - state : RTCIceState
>>>                attribute EventHandler          onidentityresult;
>>>    - assertion : RTCIdentityAssertion
>>>    - verified : boolean
>>
>>
>>
>> attribute EventHandler ondatachannel;
>>    - channel: DataChannel
>>
>> onconnection, onclosedconnection: no params (and poorly named)
>>
>> In DataChannel objects:
>> onopen, onclose: no params
>> onerror: not defined yet - should try to mirror WebSockets
>> onmessage: Object (DOMString, Blob or ArrayBuffer) - same as WebSockets
>>
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Rather than using the generic EventHandler for each of these events, a
>>> specific, typed callback function for each these would make
>>> documentation easier.  That callback would take a subclass of Event
>>> that included the extra attributes.
>>>
>>> Obviously, for some of these it could be just a matter of following
>>> through e.target.iceState or something like that, but others contain
>>> vital information.  It would be nice if this could be more clearly
>>> documented.
>>>
>>> --Martin
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Randell Jesup
>> randell-ietf@jesup.org
>>
>>
>

Received on Friday, 28 September 2012 08:58:45 UTC