768925 - API for WebTelephony conference calls

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Device Interfaces, defect)

Description

[Andrew Overholt [:overholt]]

We need to spec the API for WebTelephony conference calls.

Comment 1

[Jonas Sicking (:sicking) No longer reading bugmail consistently]

Me and Bent talked through this and came up with an API:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/WebTelephony#DOM_API

I wanted to keep things simple for now since GSM doesn't support multiple simultaneous conference groups as far as we could tell. So there's a static mozTelephony.conferanceGroup property which contains the one group that you can use.

Adding and removing calls to that group is straight-forward by calling group.add and group.remove. Only quirk is that the group can't contain just one call (since then it's not a group), so the first time you have to call .add and provide two call objects.

Swiching between a group and a call on hold, or simply between two different calls, is done by calling .resume on the group/call that you want to switch to. That will automatically put the currently active group/call on hold.

So now we just need someone to implement :)

Comment 2

[Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon]]

(In reply to Jonas Sicking (:sicking) from comment #1)
> Me and Bent talked through this and came up with an API:
> 
> https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/WebTelephony#DOM_API
> 
> I wanted to keep things simple for now since GSM doesn't support multiple
> simultaneous conference groups as far as we could tell. So there's a static
> mozTelephony.conferanceGroup property which contains the one group that you
> can use.

Is "conferance" just a typo of "conference" or an actual word? *playing the ESL card*

> So now we just need someone to implement :)

I thought this was the point of this bug? At least it seemed like Hsin-Yi was volunteering ;).

Comment 3

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her)[:hsinyi]]

Hah~ yes, if no body is working on this, then I'd like to take this challenge. :)

Comment 4

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her)[:hsinyi]]

(In reply to Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon] from comment #2)
> 
> 
> > So now we just need someone to implement :)
> 
> I thought this was the point of this bug? At least it seemed like Hsin-Yi
> was volunteering ;).

(In reply to Hsin-Yi Tsai [:hsinyi] from comment #3)
> Hah~ yes, if no body is working on this, then I'd like to take this
> challenge. :)
Hi, 

I am studying conference calls and gonna file two bugs for implementing this API. One focuses on DOM implementation and the other on RIL. 

Right before I file and take the new bugs, I wanna ask again, if anyone is working on the implementation? If no, then may I take them? 
Thanks. :)

Comment 5

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

(In reply to Philipp von Weitershausen [:philikon] from comment #2)
> (In reply to Jonas Sicking (:sicking) from comment #1)
> Is "conferance" just a typo of "conference" or an actual word?

typo!

Comment 6

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

(In reply to Hsin-Yi Tsai [:hsinyi] from comment #4)
> Right before I file and take the new bugs, I wanna ask again, if anyone is
> working on the implementation? If no, then may I take them? 

All yours! (Fair warning, though: this may prove to be a tricky first DOM bug!)

Comment 7

[Joe Cheng [:jcheng] (please needinfo)]

listed as must have in v1.2 for COMM team. koi+