Re: Improvements suggestion for DataChannels

> I'm hesitant to do these changes since they don't enable, or make it
> significantly easier to enable, anything that's not possible with the
> current API. I see these as convenience things that some developers find
> useful; and as you show, it's rather easy to derive these features from the
> information provided by the current API. I would be more concerned if you
> couldn't write a shim for this in 50, or so, lines of code.
>
I absolutly agree that they could be viewed as convenience things
useful for developers (that are the ones that they will use the API at
the last point!), but for example, the list of current DataChannels is
also to make the API homogeneous regarding to the fact that you can
get a list of the current local and remote streams, list that you
could also be able to build externally counting the calls to
addStream() and listening to the addstream event.

>
>> * list of current DataChannels on a PeerConnection object.
>> * attribute to identify if a DataChannel object was created by us or
>> by the remote PeerConnection object
>> * dispatch datachannel event also for locally created DataChannel objects


> (third bullet) I would suggest using the open event on the creating side for
> this. You get the channel from the target property of the event, and the
> channel is in the open state; same state as in the "datachannel" event
> handler on the receiving side.
>
You are right, I didn't remember about the open event that could also
help to solve the second bullet, but this give another question: if
both events do the same, why don't use only one event? If so, the
remote endpoint would dispatch the datachannel event when the new one
is created (the same way as it's inmediatly returned in the creator
side) and later both endpoints dispatch an open event. I find this
more symetric...


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Received on Monday, 13 January 2014 07:49:15 UTC