How do you address the discoverability issue that I raised? asBlob and asArrayBuffer have the benefit of being detectable at runtime. but, a settable responseType does not support detection of supported values.
-Darin On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Chris Rogers <[email protected]> wrote: > passing "undefined" as the 4th and 5th arguments seems pretty clunky to me. > Since, we already have an "asBlob" attribute, then "asArrayBuffer" like > Darin suggests seems like it might be better. However, then we can get into > cases where both "asBlob" and "asArrayBuffer" are set, and this problem > would get even worse as new types are added. So, an attribute called > "responseType" might be a good solution. This would be instead of passing > it as an argument to open(), and instead of having an "asBlob" attribute. > This approach seems the cleanest to me, and I'll propose it to the > appropriate standards group. > > Chris > > On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:45 PM, Alexey Proskuryakov <[email protected]>wrote: > >> >> 25.10.2010, в 12:34, Chris Marrin написал(а): >> >> request.open("GET", "data.xml", true, "Text"); >>> request.open("GET", "data.xml", true, "XML"); >>> request.open("GET", "data.xml", true, "Bytes"); >>> >> >> I'd sure like to try to avoid an explosion in the API. I like Geoff's >> suggestion of specifying the type of request in open(). Seems like the best >> API would be to have Geoff's API and then: >> >> >> Note that open() has username and password as its 4th and 5th arguments. >> So, you'd have to call it like request.open("GET", "data.xml", true, >> undefined, undefined, "Bytes"); >> >> - WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> webkit-dev mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > webkit-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev > >
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