On Monday, January 5, 2015 2:52:55 PM UTC+1, Andrea Marchesini wrote: > Hi all, > > I just landed RequestSync API, an API for b2g only that allows apps to > schedule tasks. > > Here the webIDL: > > https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/file/f60d4ad64070/dom/webidl/RequestSyncScheduler.webidl > > > A simple example is this: > > > navigator.sync.register('foobar', { minInterval: 2, > oneShot: true, > data: 42, > wifiOnly: false, > wakeUpPage: location.href }).then( > function() { > ok(true, "navigator.sync.register() oneShot done"); > ... > }, genericError); > > > navigator.mozSetMessageHandler('request-sync', function(e) { > ok(true, "One event has been received!"); > is (e.task, "foobar"); > ... > }); > > > The params are: > > 1. minInterval - in seconds. It can happen that this operation will be > scheduled with a bigger interval. > > 2. oneShot - true/false, similar to setInterval/setTimeout. > > 3. data: whatever you want to pass to the message handler. > > 4. wifiOnly: if true, the task will not scheduled if wifi is not active > > 5. wakeUpPage: the page that will receive the system message. > > > > We also have a 'setting' API accessible only if the app has the > 'requestsync-manager' permission. > > This is the webIDL: > > https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/file/f60d4ad64070/dom/webidl/RequestSyncManager.webidl > > > With this API the settings app can overwrite the policy and the minInterval > of any task of any app: > > > navigator.syncManager.registrations().then( > function(results) { > ... > results[0].setPolicy("wifiOnly", 123 /* minInterval */); > }); > > > More documentation (not up-to-date yet): https://etherpad.mozilla.org/syncAPI > > > b
YES! YES! YES! Ok, this literally made my day. I was planning on working on it myself this week. Anyway, is this built on top of mozAlarms? Because that is totally unreliable to fire events at exactly the same time I scheduled it. It's anywhere from 0s to 2 minutes late when the CPU is asleep. _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
