Gracefully handling user rejection of get location

[bmfay]

Does this service expose any way to see whether the user has blocked the geo location? As far as I can tell, the promise just never resolves. I'd like to be able to provide a UX where we can display a message to our users explaining that the feature they are trying to use will not work if they block geolocation. Thanks.

[ezy]

You can use navigator.permissions.query to check state before actioning your geoLocation() call. Would be nice for this feature to be baked in though with it's own API functions.

navigator.permissions.query({name: 'geolocation'}).then((result) => {
        console.log(result);
        if (result.state === 'granted') {
          console.log('Permission ' + result.state);
        }
        else if (result.state === 'prompt') {
          console.log('Permission ' + result.state);
          this.send('checkinEnable');
        }
        else if (result.state === 'denied') {
          console.log('Permission ' + result.state);
        }
        result.onchange = function() {
          console.log('Permission ' + result.state);
        };
      });

[bmfay]

Thanks @ezy. For unrelated reasons we no longer need geolocation in our app, but that looks like it will do the trick if I need this behavior in the future. Thanks!