+1 to adding error codes +1 to cancel being reported by the error callback You may want to check out what Capture uses for error codes.
http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.1.0/cordova_media_capture_capture.md.html#CaptureError Simon Mac Donald http://hi.im/simonmacdonald On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Filip Maj <f...@adobe.com> wrote: > So, our camera API doesn't have error codes. Per the docs, it returns a > string [1]. Gnarly. > > The strings are also all different across platforms. Android [2] and iOS > [3] (search for "error"). > > For extra-good times, BlackBerry-webworks-java [4] does not ever return an > error, except in the case where the file is deemed "too big" [5]. So, if > the camera app is closed, we don't return an error code back to the user > for this platform, which is different from iOS + Android. > > BlackBerry-webworks-air registers JS-based callbacks using the BB HTML5 > transport API [6]. Unfortunately I can't find documentation about what > kind of parameters are passed into the error callbacks (anyone from RIM > help me out?). Finally, if the camera is closed, no callback gets invoked > either [7], which is at odds with Android + iOS. > > BlackBerry 10 implementation [8] no-ops the onCancel and onInvoke > callbacks as well, which again, is at odds. > > --- > > Proposal: add error codes. > > [1] > http://docs.phonegap.com/en/2.1.0/cordova_camera_camera.md.html#cameraError > [2] > https://github.com/apache/incubator-cordova-android/blob/master/framework/s > rc/org/apache/cordova/CameraLauncher.java#L352-L363 > [3] > https://github.com/apache/incubator-cordova-ios/blob/master/CordovaLib/Clas > ses/CDVCamera.m#L80 > [4] > https://github.com/apache/incubator-cordova-blackberry-webworks/blob/master > /framework/ext/src/org/apache/cordova/camera/Camera.java > [5] > https://github.com/apache/incubator-cordova-blackberry-webworks/blob/master > /framework/ext/src/org/apache/cordova/camera/Camera.java#L225 > [6] > https://github.com/apache/incubator-cordova-js/blob/master/lib/webworks/air > /plugin/air/camera.js > [7] > https://github.com/apache/incubator-cordova-js/blob/master/lib/webworks/air > /plugin/air/camera.js#L27 > [8] > https://github.com/apache/incubator-cordova-js/blob/master/lib/webworks/qnx > /plugin/qnx/camera.js > >