ready promise is kind of weird with overlapping scopes
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Description
Consider this situation:
// Window foo.com/bar/baz/index.html
await navigator.serviceWorker.register('sw.js', { scope: '/bar' });
navigator.serviceWorker.ready.then(swr => {
console.log(swr.scope);
});
await navigator.serviceWorker.register('sw.js', { scope: '/bar/baz' });
navigator.serviceWorker.ready.then(swr => {
console.log(swr.scope);
});
The first ready promise gets the '/bar' scope registration and waits for it to activate. This is step 4.3 of here:
https://w3c.github.io/ServiceWorker/#navigator-service-worker-ready
Assuming that the '/bar' worker does not activate immediately, we might get the '/bar/baz' worker registration started.
What should the second .ready promise access do? The promise is not settled yet, but the previous access is in a parallel bit of algorithm waiting for '/bar' to activate. Should the second access block on that somehow or start waiting on '/bar/baz' instead?
Kind of a corner case, but its a bit weird.
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Research direction
Start with the Navigator service worker ready algorithm at https://w3c.github.io/ServiceWorker/#navigator-service-worker-ready, especially step 4.3. Trace the overlapping /bar and /bar/baz registration scenario described in the issue. Done means the specification clearly defines which registration each later ready access waits for and how concurrent accesses behave.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- api, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100