1094213 - (ios) [meta] Create a stub REST API that gives us access to sync data

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for iOS :: General, defect)

Description

[Stefan Arentz | :st3fan | ⏰ EST | he/him]

We probably won't have a fully functioning Firefox Accounts and Firefox Sync client in the iOS app until later this year.

Create a minimal REST API that gives us simple access to your sync data. This API can do all the magic of FxA and Sync (hiding many API calls & crypto) on the server side so that the client can simply do a HTTP GET to for example get the list of tabs.

This is a temporary solution.

Although I'm filing this bug now, most code has already been written and is part of the https://github.com/st3fan/moz-syncapi project. This bug is here so that we can file requests and discuss for additional features in the API.

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

I would like to see a bit more of an abstraction layer between the UI code and the HTTP requests. It's a bit too raw right now and will encourage us to make coding decisions based on the temporary API.