On 06/18/2012 06:33 PM, Fabrice Desré wrote:
- For a non privileged page: - getInstalled() returns apps from this origin that are natively installed. - getAll() fails. - getSelf() return the app only if it is "natively" installed???
Yes, getSelf will only return if natively installed since checking for receipts etc. is meaningless unless the user has a way to launch the app.
- For a privileged page: - getInstalled() returns apps from any origin that are natively installed. - getAll() returns apps from any origin that are in the DOM registry. - getSelf() returns the app if it is installed in the DOM registry???
getSelf for privileged pages behaves exactly the same as non-privileged page. This case is rare though, sometimes a dashboard may also be an app, but mostly privileged domains will get a null in the callback when getSelf is called.
On b2g, I guess we should consider all apps in the DOM registry as "natively installed". Doesn't this mean that getAll() is useless, since a dashboard will ask for privileges and thus can just use getInstalled() to get all the apps?
That's right, which is why I mentioned in my earlier email than on B2G getInstalled and getAll will return the same set of apps. I think this behavior is fine.
I'd still like to get an explanation on why we do have to manage a situation where the DOM registry and the natively installed apps are not the same list.
When I'm on my mobile phone, I may not want all of my apps natively installed, but I'd still like to know that I own/purchased/acquired a particular app.
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