WebAPI/WebNFC

Preliminary scope

explicitly NDEF-only for now (navigator.mozNfc.ndef), other technologies to be investigated
read-only, no tag creation
dispatch all discovered NDEF tags to the "tagdiscovered" event, privileged web app does filtering and dispatches e.g. via WebIntents.

Example

 navigator.mozNfc.ndef.ontagdiscovered = function (event) {
   console.log("Discovered an NDEF message with " + event.message.records.length + " records.");
   event.message.records.forEach(function (record) {
     console.log("Found a " + record.tnf + " record" +
                 " of type " + record.type +
                 " with ID " + record.id +
                 " and payload " + record.payloadText);
     // record.payloadArrayBuffer is an typed array representation of the payload
   });
 };

Proposed API

nsIDOMNavigatorNfc.idl

 #include "nsISupports.idl"
 
 interface nsIDOMNfc;
 
 [scriptable, uuid(c5814d20-4dcf-11e1-b86c-0800200c9a66)]
 interface nsIDOMNavigatorNfc : nsISupports {
 
   readonly attribute nsIDOMNfc mozNfc;
 
 };

nsIDOMNfc.idl

 #include "nsISupports.idl"
 
 interface nsIDOMNdef;
 
 [scriptable, uuid(c2c01a50-4779-11e1-b86c-0800200c9a66)]
 interface nsIDOMNfc : nsISupports {
 
   readonly attribute nsIDOMNdef ndef;
 
 };

nsIDOMNdef.idl

 #include "nsIDOMEventTarget.idl"
 
 interface nsIDOMEventListener;
 
 [scriptable, uuid(c2c01a50-4779-11e1-b86c-0800200c9a66)]
 interface nsIDOMNdef : nsIDOMEventTarget {
 
   attribute nsIDOMEventListener ontagdiscovered;
 
 };

nsIDOMNfcNdefEvent.idl

 #include "nsIDOMEvent.idl"
 
 interface nsIDOMNdefMessage;
 
 [scriptable, uuid(41fcd640-4dd4-11e1-b86c-0800200c9a66)]
 interface nsIDOMNfcNdefEvent : nsIDOMEvent
 {
   readonly attribute nsIDOMNdefMessage message;
 };

nsIDOMNdefMessage.idl

 #include "nsISupports.idl"
 
 interface nsIDOMNdefRecord;
 
 [scriptable, uuid(b4388250-477a-11e1-b86c-0800200c9a66)]
 interface nsIDOMNdefMessage : nsISupports {
 
   /**
    * Array of all nsINdefRecord elements of the message
    */
   readonly attribute jsval ndefRecords;
 
 };

nsIDOMNdefRecord.idl

 #include "nsISupports.idl"
 
 [scriptable, uuid(c77c7470-477a-11e1-b86c-0800200c9a66)]
 interface nsIDOMNdefRecord : nsISupports {
 
   // See http://developer.android.com/reference/android/nfc/NdefRecord.html for the following attributes
   readonly attribute DOMString tnf;
   readonly attribute DOMString type;
   readonly attribute DOMString id;
   readonly attribute DOMString payloadText;
   readonly attribute jsval payloadArrayBuffer;
 
 };

Implementation

See bug 674741
Engineers: Markus Neubrand, Arno Puder, Philipp von Weitershausen