Context Clearing #1379
Context Clearing #1379
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| @@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ interface Channel { | |||
| broadcast(context: Context): Promise<void>; | |||
| getCurrentContext(contextType?: string): Promise<Context|null>; | |||
| addContextListener(contextType: string | null, handler: ContextHandler): Promise<Listener>; | |||
| clearContext(contextType?: string): Promise<void>; | |||
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I'm wondering if we should require an explicit null argument (contextType: string | null) to clear all types - which would match addContectListener or stick with this (matching getCurrentContext). Either works of course.
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To me it makes sense to keep it closer to getCurrentContext, because they seem most related to me, but happy to hear any thoughts/suggestions.
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There is a historical reason for addContextListener having an explicit null argument, the contextType argument was originally optional so the handler argument could be either first or second (when a type was specified). This was NOT good in practice so we moved to an explicit null argument and deprecated the single argument override:
https://fdc3.finos.org/docs/2.0/api/ref/DesktopAgent#addcontextlistener-deprecated
We don't have that problem here, so I agree its fine as is (matching getCurrentContext).
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Many thanks for taking this on @kemerava.
Could you add an entry to the CHANGLOG.md file please.
I think we should keep this open until after fdc3 for the web (#1191) is merged, when we will need to add schemas for a request and response message. The same may be needed in the bridging (the fdc3.nothing ewill propagate through normal broadcast messages, but I think this will need a specific message to indicate it happened through the clearContextAPI call).
Co-authored-by: Kris West <[email protected]>
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LGTM - although we could do with an example of listening for cleared context somewhere.
Holding approval until after fdc3-for-web is merged as we'll then need to add schemas to support it there. Bridging schemas are also needed, those should be added before this is merged.
Many thanks for the contribution @kemerava, much appreciated.
Closes #1197
Adding context cleaning
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