setUpdateListener

let promise = window.webxdc.setUpdateListener((update) => {}, serial);

With setUpdateListener() you define a callback that receives the updates sent by sendUpdate(). The callback is called for updates sent by you or other peers. The serial specifies the last serial that you know about (defaults to 0). The returned promise resolves when the listener has processed all the update messages known at the time when setUpdateListener was called.

Each update which is passed to the callback comes with the following properties:

• update.payload: equals the payload given to sendUpdate()

• update.serial: the serial number of this update. Serials are larger 0 and newer serials have higher numbers. There may be gaps in the serials and it is not guaranteed that the next serial is exactly incremented by one.

• update.max_serial: the maximum serial currently known. If max_serial equals serial this update is the last update (until new network messages arrive).

• update.info: optional, short, informational message (see sendUpdate())

• update.document: optional, document name as set by the sender, (see sendUpdate()). Implementations show the document name e.g. beside the app icon or in the title bar. There is no need for the receiver to further process this information.

• update.summary: optional, short text, shown beside icon (see sendUpdate())

Calling setUpdateListener() multiple times is undefined behavior: in current implementations only the last invocation works.