RTCPeerConnection: pendingRemoteDescription property
Baseline
Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.
The pendingRemoteDescription read-only property of the RTCPeerConnection interface returns an RTCSessionDescription object describing a pending configuration change for the remote end of the connection.
This does not describe the connection as it currently stands, but as it may exist in the near future.
Use RTCPeerConnection.currentRemoteDescription or RTCPeerConnection.remoteDescription to get the current session
description for the remote endpoint.
For details on the difference, see Pending and current descriptions in the WebRTC Connectivity page.
Value
If a remote description change is in progress, this is an RTCSessionDescription describing the proposed configuration.
Otherwise, this returns null.
Examples
This example looks at the pendingRemoteDescription to determine whether or not there's a description change being processed.
const pc = new RTCPeerConnection();
// …
const sd = pc.pendingRemoteDescription;
if (sd) {
// There's a description change underway!
} else {
// No description change pending
}
Specifications
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| WebRTC: Real-Time Communication in Browsers # dom-peerconnection-pendingremotedesc |
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Note:
The addition of pendingRemoteDescription and currentRemoteDescription to the WebRTC spec is relatively recent.
In browsers which don't support them, only remoteDescription is available.