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Bug 25793 - Make facingMode a DOMString for now to avoid throwing on future facingModes
Summary: Make facingMode a DOMString for now to avoid throwing on future facingModes
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 25298
Alias: None
Product: WebRTC Working Group
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Media Capture and Streams (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dan Burnett
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Reported: 2014-05-19 04:57 UTC by Jan-Ivar Bruaroey [:jib]
Modified: 2014-07-02 11:12 UTC (History)
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Description Jan-Ivar Bruaroey [:jib] 2014-05-19 04:57:44 UTC 
Enums inside a dictionary throw - See bug 25298 comment 13 - which means we can't add more facingModes in the future (without breaking old browsers).

A workaround would be to make it a DOMString and only allude to it being an enum-like.
Comment 1 Jan-Ivar Bruaroey [:jib] 2014-05-19 05:04:57 UTC 
This may apply to other enums as well.
Comment 2 Harald Alvestrand 2014-07-01 09:14:34 UTC 
This seems sad, but necessary. Assigning for editing.

The enum should be kept in the spec, and the argument should be a ConstrainDOMString, with a comment saying "legal values are from the enum".
Comment 3 Jan-Ivar Bruaroey [:jib] 2014-07-01 16:03:26 UTC 
I think this is covered by the pull request in Bug 25298 Comment 20. I suggest closing this bug as a dup of that one.
Comment 4 Harald Alvestrand 2014-07-01 18:36:14 UTC 
Agree with Jan-Ivar.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 25298 ***