697355 - (b2g-network-manager) [meta] Network manager API

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[Chris Jones [:cjones] inactive; ni?/f?/r? if you need me]

We want to allow a network manager to enable and disable available network interfaces (wifi, ethernet, 4/3/2g, ...) and set which is preferred (maybe by an ordering on the interfaces).  We may also want to use this entry point to allow configuring particular interfaces (APs for wifi, dhcp/etc. for supporting interfaces), or maybe that should be separate.

Comment 1

[Chris Jones [:cjones] inactive; ni?/f?/r? if you need me]

(Probably goes without saying, but this would be a privileged API.)

Comment 2

[Thinker Li [:sinker]]

Attachment: Proposal of Network Manager API

Comment 3

[Thinker Li [:sinker]]

Attachment: Proposal of the interface for NIC backends

Comment 4

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

Is this API going to be internal or available to the content? If it's available to the content, there might be a few change to make it more "weby" and it might be interesting to merge a part of it with the Network Status API (aka Network API).

Comment 5

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

(In reply to Mounir Lamouri (:volkmar) (:mounir) from comment #4)
> Is this API going to be internal or available to the content? If it's
> available to the content, there might be a few change to make it more "weby"
> and it might be interesting to merge a part of it with the Network Status
> API (aka Network API).

I think Thinker's proposal is for a Gecko-internal component. Bug 717122 is the bug for this. Let's discuss it over there.

Comment 6

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

Comment on attachment 587641 [details]
Proposal of Network Manager API

Good stuff. Moved this over to bug 717122 since this bug is about public DOM api.

Comment 7

[Curtis Koenig [:curtisk-use curtis.koenig+bzATgmail.com]]]

assinged to me for sec action to schedule a meeting

Comment 8

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

I've nominated the dependent bugs so I'm not sure we need this meta bug to still have kilimanjaro/basecamp+.

Comment 9

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

So far we haven't found the need for a content-facing network management API. This may change in the future, but for now this isn't a blocker.