On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Florian Bösch <pya...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Perhaps we should think of a better scheme to export data than toFoo().
> Maybe toData('url'), toData('arraybuffer') toData('blob') or perhaps
> toData(URL), toData(ArrayBuffer) or toData(Blob). I tend to think that if
> you're starting to write toA, toB, toC, toX methods on an object, you've
> not thought this really trough what's a parameter, and what's a method.
>
We should be avoiding the need to return data in a bunch of different
interfaces in the first place. If the data is large, or takes a long or
nondeterministic amount of time to create (eg. something that would be
async in the UI thread), return a Blob; otherwise return an ArrayBuffer.
The user can convert from there as needed.
--
Glenn Maynard
