Re: Proposal: offerDataChannel in RTCOfferOptions

On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Benjamin Schwartz <bemasc@google.com>
wrote:

> Currently, RTCPeerConnection has "offerToReceiveVideo" in the
> RTCOfferOptions, which is a convenience to allow creating an offer with a
> m-line for video without first having to attach a video MediaStreamTrack.
> This is useful; without it, pages would have to attach a track and then
> renegotiate, even if they only want to receive video.
>
> However, with data channels, we don't have this convenience.  The offerer
> must call createDataChannel before createOffer, or suffer a renegotiation,
> even if they have no immediate need for a data channel.
>

Why is the requirement to call createDataChannel a big deal?

-Ekr


> So what do you think of adding a boolean "offerDataChannel" attribute to
> RTCOfferOptions, parallel to "offerToReceive*"?  I think that would be
> easier to use.
>
> --Ben
>