addIceCandidate Is Now a Queued Method

 Highlights

 Impact on my application

 Standardization status

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 Highlights

All methods that could take time to execute were made asynchronous, as is appropriate in a single-threaded language such as JavaScript. When several asynchronous methods are called they may complete their operation in a different order from which they were called. Some operations of WebRTC must be executed in a predefined order to ensure correct operation. SDP Offer/Answer is one such operation in WebRTC. addIceCandidate is part of this operation and therefore this method was added to the list of queued methods.

 Impact on my application

Be aware that at some point addIceCandidate will be asynchronous (returning a Promise) and that it will be queued along with the createOffer/Answer and setLocal/RemoteDescription methods.

 Standardization status

In WebRTC specification (editors’ draft)

 Details

The creation and use of SDP in WebRTC requires stable states in order to successfully execute the Offer/Answer (JSEP) protocol. To move cleanly from one stable state to another, operations affecting SDP need to execute in a queued manner, meaning that they will be executed in the order in which they were called. Originally only the following methods were queued: createOffer, setLocalDescription, createAnswer, and setRemoteDescription. Even though these methods are asynchronous, they will be executed in the order in which they are called.

The method addIceCandidate, used in WebRTC ICE processing, has now been added to the list of queued methods.