1373715 - navigator.geolocation.clearWatch() does not clear the watchPosition()

Status: RESOLVED INACTIVE

(Core :: DOM: Geolocation, defect)

Description

[Tyler Vorpahl]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/59.0.3071.86 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

var id = navigator.geolocation.watchPosition(success, error, options)

I am trying to get the id returned by the watch for the geolocation API so I can clear it eventually.


Actual results:

There is no id returned by the watchPosition() call.


Expected results:

navigator.geolocation.clearWatch(id) does not clear the watch because the proper id is not returned.

Comment 1

[Tyler Vorpahl]

Referenced issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1134713

Comment 2

[Josh Matthews [:jdm]]

Do you have a testcase that demonstrates this problem? WatchPosition definitely returns an id; we have automated tests that verify this.

Comment 3

[Tyler Vorpahl]

On closer inspection, a watchId is returned from navigator.geolocation.watchPosition()

However, when calling navigator.geolocation.clearWatch(watchId)... the success() callback continues to fire long after clearing the watch. 

This bug is much closer to the referenced issue above (1134713).

Comment 4

[:garvan]

Closing due to inactivity, feel free to reopen if this is reproducible. clearWatch() works ok in my testing.