1035053 - [Device Storage] To Support Variant Cloud Storage

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Marco Chen [:mchen]]

As an user, I would like to share my cloud storage (ex: dropbox/google drive) into my device. Then there will be a new device stroage for me to access files. ex: playing music, view image and video.

Comment 1

[Marco Chen [:mchen]]

And concept is to introduce a set of Web API called "Virtual Device Storage".
  1. App A can register itself as a Virtual Device Storage.
  2. Then there will be a new device storage created in runtime.
  3. Other app can access this cloud storage by normal DeviceStroage Web API.
  4. The file I/O will be routed back to App A.
  5. The different protocol to communicate with variant cloud storage can be implemented on Web Content layer.

Note:
  According to there will be a new device storage created in runtime, we also need to introduce a Web API in Device Storage for notifying web content about new storage appeared/removed.

Comment 2

[Dave Hylands [:dhylands]]

(In reply to Marco Chen [:mchen] from comment #1)
> Note:
>   According to there will be a new device storage created in runtime, we
> also need to introduce a Web API in Device Storage for notifying web content
> about new storage appeared/removed.

I started an email thread in dev.platform and proposed that we add

navigator.deviceStorage

We could then have .addOberver, .removeObserver, .getAll, and .getDefault

.add/removeObserver would allow registering interest in notifications, and we would have notifications about the default storage area changing and about new volumes being added/removed.

deviceStorage.getDefault would return the same thing as navigator.getDeviceStorage

deviceStorage.getAll would return the same thing as navigator.getDeviceStorages

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Firefox OS is not being worked on