1169452 - feature request: support updatable (ongoing) notifications

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::System, defect)

Description

[Bill Walker [:bwalker] [@wfwalker]]

some apps want to issue a notification and then update its content by issuing additional notifications without playing additional sounds. This is not currently possible with the existing "desktopNotification" API.

Comment 1

[Michael Henretty [:mikehenrty][:mhenretty]]

We should be able to do this with the "silent" flag for the notification API.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification/silent

Comment 2

[Didem Ersoz [:didem]]

Hamzata,

See comment 1 for Mike's suggestion; the "silent" flag for the notifications API seems to be the solution here. 

Thanks,
Didem

Comment 3

[Hamzata Diallo]

Hi Michael, Didem,
That is great. But my understanding is that this wasn't implemented yet, is it?

Thanks,
Hamzata

Comment 4

[Michael Henretty [:mikehenrty][:mhenretty]]

(In reply to Hamzata Diallo from comment #3)
> Hi Michael, Didem,
> That is great. But my understanding is that this wasn't implemented yet, is
> it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Hamzata

Ah you're correct, it is not implemented yet. But we can specify a null sound file which will achieve the same result. This can be done as part of bug 1169426.

Comment 5

[Hamzata Diallo]

That sounds great!

Comment 6

[Michael Henretty [:mikehenrty][:mhenretty]]

Hamzata, you mentioned in the meeting today that you wanted to also suppress vibration. The silent flag, according to spec, suppresses both sound and vibration. Is this what you want?

Comment 7

[Hamzata Diallo]

Yes, that's correct. Let's use that flag then.

Comment 8

[Michael Henretty [:mikehenrty][:mhenretty]]

Slight snag, in v2.1 we did not support behavioral flags like sound and vibrate. We will have to come up with a hack for this. I'm investigating this now.

Comment 9

[Michael Henretty [:mikehenrty][:mhenretty]]

fixed with https://github.com/mikehenrty/gaia/commit/a23f18127f01aec633bda7bea3e62d0bc9b67dba which is being rolled into bug 1169426.

Comment 10

[Bill Walker [:bwalker] [@wfwalker]]

(In reply to Michael Henretty [:mhenretty] from comment #9)
> fixed with
> https://github.com/mikehenrty/gaia/commit/
> a23f18127f01aec633bda7bea3e62d0bc9b67dba which is being rolled into bug 1169426.

which is in turn replaced by bug 1179243