867738 - Remote Debugging Protocol needs a way to transfer files

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 797639

(DevTools :: Debugger, defect, P2)

Description

[Benoit Girard (:BenWa)]

This is an alternative, simpler, suggestion to bug 797639. Since phones OOM instead of swapping, to transfer large data blobs we need it would be easier to generate them directly to a file stream and hand over a file name/handle to RDP to handle the transfer piecewise.

To be clear we only need one of this or bug 797639.

Comment 1

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

Jim, how do you feel about this idea?

Comment 2

[Jim Blandy :jimb]

I'd like to understand the restrictions we're operating under better. When you generate these big blobs of data, are you able to return to the event loop between chunks? Or do you have code which needs to run entirely in a single event tick, and generates all the data?

Are you suggesting that the RDP transfer the data chunkwise using the ordinary JSON framing?

Comment 3

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

Since we're actively implementing bug 797639, I'll dupe this to that one.