Intent to Prototype: Service Worker Registration Id

[Ben Kelly]

Contact emails

wande...@chromium.org

Explainer

https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/issues/1512#issue-596157033

Specification

https://github.com/w3c/ServiceWorker/pull/1526

Summary

This feature adds an `id` attribute to ServiceWorkerRegistration which acts as a unique key identifying the registration. Previously the registration's scope was used as the unique key. By moving to a separate `id` value the scope can now be changed atomically without unregistering and re-registering the existing registration.

Blink component

Blink>ServiceWorker

Motivation

This change adds a `ServiceWorkerRegistration.id` attribute which can be used to uniquely identify registrations. This allows us to make the registration's scope mutable. Previously if you wanted to change the scope you would have to unregister and re-register the service worker which could lose state like push subscriptions, etc.

Initial public proposal

TAG review

TAG review status

Pending

Risks

Interoperability and Compatibility

Gecko: No signal

WebKit: No signal

Web developers: No signals

Other signals:

Debuggability

Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests?

No

Flag name

Requires code in //chrome?

False

Tracking bug

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1286462

Estimated milestones

No milestones specified

Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status

https://chromestatus.com/feature/5654840750374912

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