Intent to Implement: PaymentComplete result "unknown"

[Rouslan Solomakhin]

Contact emails

hs121...@samsung.com, rou...@chromium.org

Spec

https://w3c.github.io/browser-payment-api/#dom-paymentcomplete

Summary

Replace the PaymentComplete enum value "" with the more descriptive "unknown".

Motivation

The merchant can call PaymentResult.complete("unknown") to indicate that transaction result is not known yet, but the user is free to leave the website. A merchant typically will notify the user by email about the final result of processing the transaction.

Interoperability and Compatibility Risk

Low

Ongoing technical constraints

None

Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?

No. The feature alters PaymentRequest API, which is currently shipped on Android with ongoing work to ship on all other platforms, except Android WebView. The latter is out of scope because PaymentRequest requires UI. 

OWP launch tracking bug

http://crbug.com/670291

Link to entry on the feature dashboard

https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/4977207155884032

Requesting approval to ship?

No

[Rouslan Solomakhin]

As pointed out here, calling PaymentResult.complete("unknown") and PaymentResult.complete("") is already equivalent, according to the spec. Therefore, this change is imperceptible to the web developer and can be shipped immediately without a runtime flag.