Re: asynchrony for addStream w/ error/success callbacks

On 1/10/14 4:13 AM, Stefan Håkansson LK wrote:
> On 2014-01-10 02:39, Martin Thomson wrote:
>> Since we're required to enqueue all mutation operations on
>> RTCPeerConnection, I'm surprised that addStream, which has an
>> interdependency on createOffer/createAnswer, is synchronous.  It's not
>> in Firefox, which means that it's not possible to report errors
>> effectively.
> I'm not sure what errors there could be. To me addStream just adds a
> MediaStream to the "local stream set"; that "local stream set" is what
> is considered at next createOffer/Answer.
>
> Likewise I'm not sure why it would have to be asynchronous. The content
> of the "local stream set" will only matter  at createOffer/Answer, and I
> think there should be a synchronous part of those operations (they are
> underspecified currently) which says something like "let xxx be this
> RTCPeerConnection Object's local stream set; queue a task to perform the
> following steps; ...." - modeled from setLocal/Remote.
>
> I may be wrong...
>
>> I'd like to suggest that we consider making addStream and removeStream
>> asynchronous like everything else.
>>
>> Also, I looked, but I can't see a concrete use for the constraints on
>> addStream.  The algorithm forgets to even mention these.
> I agree to this.

+1. Removing the open-ended settings argument (MediaConstraints) means 
addStream cannot fail and does not need callbacks.

.: Jan-Ivar :.

Received on Friday, 10 January 2014 16:28:37 UTC