674784 - Need strategy for regularly and reliably updating contacts

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Mozilla Labs :: F1, defect)

Description

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

Contacts are currently fetched only when a user logs in, so are never updated while the user remains logged in.  The complications in fixing this are:

* The fetching should be done in the background (ie, should not block any of the regular calls unless specifically requested) and there should only be one fetch happening at a time.

* The old contacts must still be available while new contacts are being fetched - ie, we can't just clear the cached copy before fetch as that will cause problems should the user attempt to share while updated copies are being fetched.

* Deleted contacts should be removed.  This is tricker than it sounds given the "paged" nature of the contacts calls - you can't know an old contact has been deleted until the last paged operation completes - and as above, you can't just nuke the entire list before re-fetching.

Comment 1

[Bryan Clark (DevTools PM) [:clarkbw]]

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