User-supplied algorithms and algorithm enumeration

[ricea]

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There should be a way to register algorithms that are not built-in but can be used to construct CompressionStream and DecompressionStreams in the same realm.

@domenic provided the following API sketch:

dictionary TransformStreamInit {
  required ReadableStream readable;
  required WritableStream writable;
};

callback CompressionAlgorithm = Promise<TransformStreamInit> (DOMString format, object options);

interface CompressionAlgorithms {
  maplike<DOMString, CompressionAlgorithm>;
};

partial interface CompressionStream {
  static CompressionAlgorithms algorithms;
};

CompressionStream.algorithms.set(
  "foo",
  () => ({ readable: ..., writable: ... })
);

CompressionStream.algorithms.has('foo');
CompressionStream.algorithms.keys();

Internally, the set of available algorithms would be stored in an internal slot on the global object.

[jimmywarting]

is this so that you can detect if eg deflate, gzip, deflate-raw, brotli is supported and if not you can add (polyfill) them yourself?

...if so maybe #6 can be closed in favor of this one?

[ricea]

is this so that you can detect if eg deflate, gzip, deflate-raw, brotli is supported and if not you can add (polyfill) them yourself?

Yes.

...if so maybe #6 can be closed in favor of this one?

#6 is for detecting which format a particular object was constructed with. So it's still (mildly) useful.