2011859 - Remove usage of /records endpoint

Status: NEW

(Application Services :: Remote Settings, enhancement)

Description

[Mathieu Leplatre [:leplatrem]]

5 years ago, we introduced the /changeset endpoint on Remote Settings, which unlike the /records endpoint, allows to fetch both metadata (signature) and records in one request.

In a near future, we will introduce a v2 API that will only support /changeset, which BTW will be forward compatible for clients implementing our current official specifications.

The Remote Settings client in Application Services still relies on the /records endpoint.
This ticket will track the work that will consist in replacing the endpoint.
The change is trivial since the changes field of the /changeset endpoint is the equivalent of the data field of the /records endpoint.

Note: The /changeset endpoint does not support server side filtering, but usage of get_records_with_options() were removed a few years ago (can't find related bug)

Comment 1

[Alex Cottner]

I think the simplest path would be to patch this code to use changeset. It seems to be called in several android implementations already.

Comment 2

[Alex Cottner]

https://github.com/mozilla/application-services/pull/7186

Comment 3

[Alex Cottner]

Attachment: GitHub Pull Request

Comment 4

[Alex Cottner]

Attachment: Bug 2011859 - Preparing for application-services breaking change. Renaming RemoteSettingsConfig2 to RemoteSettingsConfig.