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Bug 25626 - Convert the various KeyAlgorithm interfaces into Dictionaries
Summary: Convert the various KeyAlgorithm interfaces into Dictionaries
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Web Cryptography
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Cryptography API Document (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: PC All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ryan Sleevi
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Reported: 2014-05-09 00:38 UTC by Ryan Sleevi
Modified: 2014-06-16 23:17 UTC (History)
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Description Ryan Sleevi 2014-05-09 00:38:37 UTC 
Raised during the W3C TAG review - https://github.com/w3ctag/spec-reviews/issues/3

This is an artifact of Bug 24657 and Bug 24767. The notion of KeyAlgorithm as an interface introduces inappropriate complexity into the language - and the [NoInterfaceObject] annotation is insufficient to hide it.

Rather than treating KeyAlgorithm (and derived) as Interfaces, convert them to a Dictionary within the specification.

Further, to avoid the WebIDL restriction that "dictionaries cannot be attributes of an interface" (See http://heycam.github.io/webidl/#idl-attributes ), the specification should dictate that the IDL Dictionaries are converted to ES objects, as defined in http://heycam.github.io/webidl/#es-dictionary

This implicitly will make the KeyPair interface structured clonable (because the members - Key objects - are clonable), as well as ensure that KeyAlgorithm objects themselves can be cloned via structured clone (a spec omission at this point)
Comment 1 Ryan Sleevi 2014-05-12 04:55:49 UTC 
*** Bug 24768 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***