+1 to allowing the user to mark networks as metered. The inability to do
this makes me cry regularly when forget to forget networks.

 #costlyintertubeproblems

On Mon, Jan 5, 2015 at 6:49 PM, Toby Kurien <[email protected]> wrote:

> Just a comment - treating "wifi" as a special case is perhaps not the best
> strategy. It might be better to have "unmeteredConnectionOnly", because the
> wifi connection could be to a mobile hotspot. This would  of course require
> the user to set up wifi/bluetooth PAN/etc. connections as metered or not,
> but that can be down the line. Android had to do this recently (see
> https://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/ConnectivityManager.html#isActiveNetworkMetered%28%29
> )
>
> On Monday, 5 January 2015 15:52:55 UTC+2, Andrea Marchesini  wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just landed RequestSync API, an API for b2g only that allows apps to
> schedule tasks.
> >
> > Here the webIDL:
> >
> >
> https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/file/f60d4ad64070/dom/webidl/RequestSyncScheduler.webidl
> >
> >
> > A simple example is this:
> >
> >
> >     navigator.sync.register('foobar', { minInterval: 2,
> >                                          oneShot: true,
> >                                          data: 42,
> >                                          wifiOnly: false,
> >                                          wakeUpPage: location.href
> }).then(
> >     function() {
> >       ok(true, "navigator.sync.register() oneShot done");
> >       ...
> >     }, genericError);
> >
> >
> >   navigator.mozSetMessageHandler('request-sync', function(e) {
> >       ok(true, "One event has been received!");
> >       is (e.task, "foobar");
> >       ...
> >   });
> >
> >
> > The params are:
> >
> > 1. minInterval - in seconds. It can happen that this operation will be
> scheduled with a bigger interval.
> >
> > 2. oneShot - true/false, similar to setInterval/setTimeout.
> >
> > 3. data: whatever you want to pass to the message handler.
> >
> > 4. wifiOnly: if true, the task will not scheduled if wifi is not active
> >
> > 5. wakeUpPage: the page that will receive the system message.
> >
> >
> >
> > We also have a 'setting' API accessible only if the app has the
> 'requestsync-manager' permission.
> >
> > This is the webIDL:
> >
> >
> https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/file/f60d4ad64070/dom/webidl/RequestSyncManager.webidl
> >
> >
> > With this API the settings app can overwrite the policy and the
> minInterval of any task of any app:
> >
> >
> >   navigator.syncManager.registrations().then(
> >     function(results) {
> >       ...
> >       results[0].setPolicy("wifiOnly", 123 /* minInterval */);
> >     });
> >
> >
> > More documentation (not up-to-date yet):
> https://etherpad.mozilla.org/syncAPI
> >
> >
> > b
>
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