[whatwg] SQL API and changeVersion() with no callbacks

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Fri Oct 26 15:23:57 PDT 2007


On Thu, 25 Oct 2007, Brady Eidson wrote:
> 
> For the sake of simplicity in the API, I see no reason why there 
> couldn't be a single version of changeVersion() with the 2 strings and 2 
> callbacks.  Then if a user truly wanted to call changeVersion() but 
> wasn't interested in the results, they could just pass null for both of 
> the callbacks.

Very good point. I have removed the overloads here. This is not going to 
be frequently called, so why not require the callbacks.


> I suppose the same could be said about executeSql().

Well... I can certainly see people queuing up a bunch of requests and 
dealing with the errors at the end in the transaction error handler. I am 
open to requiring that that have an explicit "null" though. Who do other 
people think?

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