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Is there a way to know if geolocation is enabled for the current domain?

The website I'm working on uses HTML5 geolocation api. It works fine, but I need to know if the feature has been authorized.
navigator.geolocation only tells if the feature is available. What I want to know is whether the user has enabled it already. Basically, I need to know if the browser will request permission to use the feature. Is it possible?

Solution

  • If the user does not allow your app to use the Geolocation API the methods getCurrentPosition and watchPosition will return an PositionError object via the error callback:

    void getCurrentPosition(successCallback,
                        errorCallback,
                        options);

long watchPosition(successCallback,
                   errorCallback,
                   options);

    The PositionError looks like:

    PositionError {
    code;
    message;
};

    where the possibles values of code are:

    PositionError.PERMISSION_DENIED = 1;
PositionError.POSITION_UNAVAILABLE = 2;
PositionError.TIMEOUT = 3;

    And more specific:

    • PERMISSION_DENIED (numeric value 1) The location acquisition process failed because the document does not have permission to use the Geolocation API.

    The documentation here.