properties on device#show page have stale values

[landlessness]

I have a device property, simCCID, that only gets populated after a device has been running for a while. Even though the property value had changed the browser was not showing the new value. The stale value made me think I had a bug in my code.

[13protons]

@kevinswiber would this count as an enhancement request for a device's show page to monitor the device api for updated non-stream values?

[kevinswiber]

The browser won't update on property changes unless they come as a result of a state transition.

[landlessness]

so the answer is user error? refresh the browser?

[kevinswiber]

@landlessness Yes. The alternative is to have the property change as the result of a state transition, but that may or may not make sense depending on your use case.

[landlessness]

@kevinswiber ok. that could work for me.

to check my understanding, as long as a function specified in config:

config.map('foo', this.foo)

updates the property this.simCCID:

Fona.prototype.foo = function(data) {this.simCCID = data;}

then that update will be communicated out to the browser and other clients? is that right?