Closed Bug 1389391 Opened 7 years ago Closed 7 years ago

Dropbox say FileLink app will stop working on 28th September 2017

Categories

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Product:
Thunderbird
Component:
General
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

People

(Reporter: dave, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 7.1.1; Tablet; rv:54.0) Gecko/54.0 Firefox/54.0
Build ID: 20170628221524

Steps to reproduce:

I received an email:

Hi David,

On September 28, 2017, we’ll be making some changes to Dropbox that will likely affect the following 3rd party apps linked to your Dropbox account: Sailfish OS, Mozilla Thunderbird. You’re receiving this email because you’ve used these apps at least once within the past month.

While we’ve informed all developers about our upcoming changes, the developers for the apps listed above have yet to update their apps accordingly. If they don’t update their apps before September 28, these apps will no longer be able to access Dropbox. That said, any data already saved in Dropbox won’t be affected and will still be accessible from our official web, mobile, and desktop clients.

As a recent user of these apps, we recommend you take the following actions:
Review how you use these apps, especially if you use them to access Dropbox
If you rely on these apps to store data in Dropbox, we suggest exporting or backing up any data from these apps before the September 28 deadline.
We understand changes like these can be inconvenient. We hope that the recommendations above help you plan accordingly. If you have any questions about these apps, please contact the apps through their support channels.

The Dropbox Team
NI'ing a few people here.

Dropbox Filelink is not part of Thunderbird, it must be supported by some add-on, right?

Richard, you use it.
Flags: needinfo?(richard.marti)
Yes, sorry, I've had it so long, and use it so often, I'd forgotten it involved an addon.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/thunderbird/addon/dropbox-for-filelink/?src=ss

That says "Add Dropbox support to Thunderbird's Filelink feature."
Well, Mike and Magnus are listed as they authors.
Flags: needinfo?(richard.marti)
Flags: needinfo?(mkmelin+mozilla)
Flags: needinfo?(mconley)
Correct - unfortunately, I don't have the cycles to maintain this anymore. I'm happy to transfer ownership to somebody else if they have the time to switch over to the new API.
Flags: needinfo?(mconley)
Codes over at https://github.com/mikeconley/thunderbird-filelink-dropbox for anyone interested.

Looks like they're deprecating the v1 API and we need to switch to v2: https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2017/06/updated-api-v1-deprecation-timeline/
URL: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/que...
Severity: normal → major
Magnus hasn't commented so I asusme he's not doing it.  

I've just emailed Carlin Scott (cc Mike and Magnus) - https://github.com/carlin-q-scott - who posted in April on AMO an interest in doing this. I don't see that he has a bugmail address.
Component: Untriaged → Instant Messaging
Flags: needinfo?(mkmelin+mozilla)
Component: Instant Messaging → General
(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #7)
> Magnus hasn't commented so I asusme he's not doing it.  
> 
> I've just emailed Carlin Scott (cc Mike and Magnus) -
> https://github.com/carlin-q-scott - who posted in April on AMO an interest
> in doing this. I don't see that he has a bugmail address.

I never got a response from Carlin
As this is an add-on problem I think we can close this bug. I might be able to do this some time in the future, but no promises.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
(In reply to Philipp Kewisch [:Fallen]  from comment #10)

I looked into this and concluded that it might be easiest to adapt the code for Box (assuming that works), which already uses oauth2, to the new dropbox API
https://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mail/components/cloudfile/nsBox.js

I lack the expertise to do it though.
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