1425570 - Add a combination of deleteRange and deleteUrl

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(WebExtensions :: General, enhancement, P5)

Description

[Lusito]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20171206182557

Steps to reproduce:

I wanted to remove all history entries of a certain url within a given time range (in this case all history logged in this session).


Actual results:

The API isn't capable of doing this right now.
deleteUrl() allows to remove by url
deleteRange() allows to remove by a time range


Expected results:

There needs to be another (possibly more generic) remove() method which accepts both url and startTime/endTime.

Comment 1

[Lusito]

Alternatively, a way to remove VisitItems by Id would be an option.

Comment 2

[Caitlin Neiman [:caitmuenster]]

Hi Lusito, this has been added to the agenda for the January 30, 2018 WebExtensions APIs triage meeting. Would you be able to join us? 

Here’s a quick overview of what to expect at the triage: 

* We normally spend 5 minutes per bug
* The more information in the bug, the better
* The goal of the triage is to give a general thumbs up or thumbs down on a proposal; we won't be going deep into implementation details

Relevant Links: 

* Wiki for the meeting: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Triage#Next_Meeting
* Meeting agenda: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x80jYXicAotNjlitY5RZDcSRpRM3lmaSHp_q4co4OEg/edit#
* Vision doc for WebExtensions: https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebExtensions/Vision

Comment 3

[Lusito]

Hi Caitlin, this should be possible.

Comment 4

[Mike Conca [:mconca]]

This API request was approved as part of the 30-Jan-2018 design decision meeting. When this is implemented, it will be important to maintain Chrome compatibility with the current API. Possibilities discussed during the meeting included adding a completely new API or possibly extending the current API with different options.