Spec differentiates between ImageDecoder initialization with unsupported non-image MIME type and an unsupported image MIME type
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Description
There is a WPT that checks for a NotSupportedError promise rejection when the MIME type "junk/type"
https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt/blob/53a1437dcfc754a3dc8ffe0bd34f9a6524e49fcf/webcodecs/image-decoder.https.any.js#L163
This conflicts with a strict reading of the spec:
From https://w3c.github.io/webcodecs/#imagedecoder-constructor:
"If init is not valid ImageDecoderInit, throw a TypeError."
From https://w3c.github.io/webcodecs/#valid-imagedecoderinit:
"1. If type is not a valid image MIME type, return false."
From https://w3c.github.io/webcodecs/#valid-image-mime-type:
"A valid image MIME type is a string that is a valid MIME type string and for which the type, per Section 8.3.1 of [RFC9110], is image."
From https://w3c.github.io/webcodecs/#configure-the-image-decoder
"1. Let supported be the result of running the Check Type Support algorithm with init.type."
"2. If supported is false, run the Close ImageDecoder algorithm with a NotSupportedError DOMException and return "processed"."
If we put all this together, my reading of it says that if the MIME type supplied is anything besides "image/XXX", we should throw a TypeError in the ImageDecoder constructor. If we don't support XXX, then we should reject the ImageDecoder [[completed promise]] and ImageTrackList [[ready promise]] with NotSupportedError.
Is this what we want? I don't have any strong feelings either way, just want to understand if the test is wrong, or if this is an inconsistency in the spec that we want to correct.
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Read the ImageDecoder constructor, valid ImageDecoderInit, valid image MIME type, and Configure the ImageDecoder sections linked in the issue. Compare their stated errors with the WPT at image-decoder.https.any.js line 163. Done means reaching agreement on whether the specification or test needs correction and documenting the resolved behavior.
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- html
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- api, testing, web-dev
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- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 5/5
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- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100