10069 2010-07-02 20:39:28 +0000 Structured clone algorithm should throw something more informative than NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR 2010-10-04 14:29:29 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified PC Windows XP CLOSED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 jonas ian ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 36543 0 jonas 2010-07-02 20:39:28 +0000 Currently the structured clone algorithm throws a NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR error when the cloning fails (for example due to the cloned object containing host objects). This is a fairly generic and uninformative error. One problem is that this makes it hard to defer to the HTML5 spec for other specs that are using structured clones. For example IndexedDB uses the structured clone algorithm for the IDBObjectStore.add method. However if all that is thrown if a "uncloneable" is passed to IDBObjectStore.add is NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR, then that gives the author very little information about what went wrong. I propose we instead throw a DATA_CLONE_ERR error, or some such. 37588 1 ian 2010-08-18 01:26:51 +0000 Ok.EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. 37589 2 contributor 2010-08-18 01:28:15 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r5311. Check-in comment: Make the structured clone algorithm using DATA_CLONE_ERR rather than NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR, for sicking. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5310&to=5311