The read-only property candidate
on the RTCIceCandidate
interface returns a DOMString
describing the candidate in detail. Most of the other properties of
RTCIceCandidate
are actually extracted from this string.
This property can be configured by specifying the value of the
candidate
property when constructing the
new candidate object using RTCIceCandidate()
.
Syntax
var candidate = RTCIceCandidate.candidate;
Value
A DOMString
describing the properties of the candidate, taken directly
from the SDP attribute "candidate"
. The candidate string
specifies the network connectivity information for the candidate. If the
candidate
is an empty string (""
), the end of the candidate
list has been reached; this candidate is known as the "end-of-candidates" marker.
The syntax of the candidate string is described in RFC 5245, section 15.1. For an a-line (attribute line) that looks like this:
a=candidate:4234997325 1 udp 2043278322 192.168.0.56 44323 typ host
the corresponding candidate
string's value will be
"candidate:4234997325 1 udp 2043278322 192.168.0.56 44323 typ host"
.
The user agent always prefers candidates with the highest
priority
, all else being equal. In the
example above, the priority is 2043278322
. The attributes are all separated
by a single space character, and are in a specific order. The complete list of
attributes for this example candidate is:
Example
In this example, we see a function which receives as input an SDP string containing an ICE candidate received from the remote peer during the signaling process.
function handleNewIceCandidate(candidateSDP) {
var candidateObj = new RTCIceCandidate(candidateSDP);
myPeerConnection.addIceCandidate(candidateObj).catch({
/* handle the error thrown by addIceCandidate() */
});
}
The handleNewIceCandidate()
function shown here passes the received
candidate's SDP text into RTCIceCandidate()
to receive an RTCIceCanddiate
object in return,
which represents the candidate.
The new candidate is then passed into
RTCPeerConnection.addIceCandidate()
to add the candidate to the list of
candidates for WebRTC to consider using for the connection being established.
This example could be simplified somewhat; you may more often see the code look something like this, taking advantage of more advanced ECMAScript 2016 features:
let handleNewIceCandidate = candidateSDP =>
myPeerConnection.addIceCandidate(new RTCIceCandidate(candidateSDP));
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
WebRTC 1.0: Real-time Communication Between Browsers The definition of 'RTCIceCandidate.candidate' in that specification. |
Candidate Recommendation | Initial definition. |
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