Re: DataChannel: how to know the max size of the sending buffer?

2014-05-10 14:09 GMT+02:00 Wolfgang Beck <wolfgang.beck01@googlemail.com>:
> Inside OS kernels, we have the same problem and have solved it decades
> ago: run the sender when there is space in the queue. Run the receiver
> when there is data available (but don't remove the received data from
> the queue yet, the receiver might not be able to handle when its
> upstream queues are full).
>
> In Javascript, this would translate into two callbacks:
> onreceivedata() just tells the JS that it can get a message from the
> datachannel now.
> onsendspace() tells the JS that it can send a packet now
>
> recv() would fail with an exception, when there is no data available,
> send() would fail with an exception, when the JS tried to send without
> waiting for a onsendspace() event.

The problem is that the DataChannel JS API mimics the WebSocket JS API
(it is intentional), which behaves in the same way.


-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>

Received on Saturday, 10 May 2014 13:27:07 UTC