946203 - No API to get Device Name

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Device Interfaces, enhancement)

Description

[canadese90]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_0) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.57 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

I was trying to get Device Name (Model, Manufacturer, Product)


Actual results:

No way to do that (instead of getting the user-agent and parsing it, even if on my ZTE Open I get  'Mozilla/5.0 (Mobile; rv:18.1) Gecko/18.1 Firefox/18.1' without model).


Expected results:

A developer should have access to basic information about general devices.
E.g. Model, Manufacturer, Product. (e.g. http://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/Build.html)

Comment 1

[Fernando Jiménez Moreno [:ferjm]]

You can use the Settings API to get the "deviceinfo.product_model" setting as in https://mxr.mozilla.org/gaia/source/apps/bluetooth/js/settings.js#141

Comment 2

[canadese90]

I cannot understand how it's been resolved.

To access Settings API, App should be Certified. Am I wrong?

Also, according to https://developer.mozilla.org/it/Firefox_OS/Platform/Settings_list there is no deviceinfo.product_model property (but yes, we know it exists now). 

What about self-published applications requiring access to Settings API?

Comment 3

[Fernando Jiménez Moreno [:ferjm]]

(In reply to canadese90 from comment #2)
> I cannot understand how it's been resolved.
> 
> To access Settings API, App should be Certified. Am I wrong?

Yes, the Settings API is for certified apps only.

> 
> Also, according to
> https://developer.mozilla.org/it/Firefox_OS/Platform/Settings_list there is
> no deviceinfo.product_model property (but yes, we know it exists now). 
> 
> What about self-published applications requiring access to Settings API?

If you mean hosted apps, unfortunately they can't access the Settings API.

The bug description does not mention the required API security level, just the need of an API to get the device model, which is already available. If you are asking for a way to get the device name from hosted apps then please reopen the bug as it is still valid. Thanks.