Merge remote-tracking branch 'origin/develop' into dbkr/platform_version

src/vector/index.js

@@ -174,14 +174,27 @@ function getConfig() {
     let deferred = q.defer();
 
     request(
-        { method: "GET", url: "config.json", json: true },
+        { method: "GET", url: "config.json" },
         (err, response, body) => {
             if (err || response.status < 200 || response.status >= 300) {
+                // Lack of a config isn't an error, we should
+                // just use the defaults.
+                // Also treat a blank config as no config because
+                // we don't get 404s from file: URIs so this is the
+                // only way we can not fail if the file doesn't exist
+                // when loading from a file:// URI.
+                if (( err && err.response.status == 404) || body == '') {
+                    deferred.resolve({});
+                }
                 deferred.reject({err: err, response: response});
                 return;
             }
 
-            deferred.resolve(body);
+            // We parse the JSON ourselves rather than use the JSON
+            // parameter, since this throws a parse error on empty
+            // which breaks if there's no config.json and we're
+            // loading from the filesystem (see above).
+            deferred.resolve(JSON.parse(body));
         }
     );
 
@@ -234,13 +247,7 @@ async function loadApp() {
     try {
         configJson = await getConfig();
     } catch (e) {
-        // On 404 errors, carry on without a config,
-        // but on other errors, fail, otherwise it will
-        // lead to subtle errors where the app runs with
-        // the default config if it fails to fetch config.json.
-        if (e.response.status != 404) {
-            configError = e;
-        }
+        configError = e;
     }
 
     console.log("Vector starting at "+window.location);

src/vector/platform/WebPlatform.js

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 // @flow
 
 /*
-Copyright 2016 Aviral Dasgupta and OpenMarket Ltd
+Copyright 2016 Aviral Dasgupta
+Copyright 2016 OpenMarket Ltd
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
@@ -65,6 +66,40 @@ export default class WebPlatform extends VectorBasePlatform {
         this._updateFavicon();
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the platform supports displaying
+     * notifications, otherwise false.
+     */
+    supportsNotifications() : boolean {
+        return Boolean(global.Notification);
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Returns true if the application currently has permission
+     * to display notifications. Otherwise false.
+     */
+    maySendNotifications() : boolean {
+        return global.Notification.permission == 'granted';
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * Requests permission to send notifications. Returns
+     * a promise that is resolved when the user has responded
+     * to the request. The promise has a single string argument
+     * that is 'granted' if the user allowed the request or
+     * 'denied' otherwise.
+     */
+    requestNotificationPermission() : Promise {
+        // annoyingly, the latest spec says this returns a
+        // promise, but this is only supported in Chrome 46
+        // and Firefox 47, so adapt the callback API.
+        const defer = q.defer();
+        global.Notification.requestPermission((result) => {
+            defer.resolve(result);
+        });
+        return defer.promise;
+    }
+
     displayNotification(title: string, msg: string, avatarUrl: string) {
         const notification = new global.Notification(
             title,

src/vector/platform/index.js

@@ -1,7 +1,8 @@
 // @flow
 
 /*
-Copyright 2016 Aviral Dasgupta and OpenMarket Ltd
+Copyright 2016 Aviral Dasgupta
+Copyright 2016 OpenMarket Ltd
 
 Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.