Reduce the number of notifications displayed on errors

[ghost]

Often when I try to open a folder I will have several errors show up saying it had some issue or another trying to open the folder even though the folder opens fine. I'm fine with being alerted to a potential problem, but I think it might be best to either reuse the same notification if the error is the same, or have a generic error pop up that has an action when clicked on to display an error log.

[yoichiro]

@brycethorup Hmm... It may be difficult, because all file system provider implementations only works for each firing event... If the opened folder has three files, the onGetMetadataRequested event will be fired three times independently. Of course, I want to collect many same errors as one error, but I don't know any ideas to achieve it...

Anyway, I intend to find some solutions...

[ghost]

The simple work around would be to give your notification an id in the first parameter of the create method. In your code, each time a notification is created you are leaving the ID blank. Here is an example from your code:

chrome.notifications.create("", {
    type: "basic",
    title: "SFTP File System",
    message: "Resuming connection failed. Unmount.",
    iconUrl: "/images/48.png"
}, function(notificationId) {
}.bind(this));

As long as the first parameter isn't an empty string the existing notification will be replaced by the new one if it uses the same id. Here is the updated code.

chrome.notifications.create("error_notification", {
    type: "basic",
    title: "SFTP File System",
    message: "Resuming connection failed. Unmount.",
    iconUrl: "/images/48.png"
}, function(notificationId) {
}.bind(this));

I created a pull request that has the modifications (#101), if you're interested.

[yoichiro]

@brycethorup I just released a new version 1.7.9 including the Pull Request #101. Thank you for your cooperation. I close this issue.