573133 - handle error handling messages for invalid email address

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Cloud Services Graveyard :: Firefox Home, defect)

Description

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

When asking for instructions to setup sync through FF Home, we should handle the alert message better for the email address error handling.   Typing in random characters (and not @ and .), just spawns a generic alert:

"Problem.  Unable to submit your email, please try again later (400)"

in this case, i was not following email address guidelines, so just need to resubmit a valid email.   we should handle error handling for invalid inputs, versus network connectivity problems

Repro:
1) install beta 12
2) click "Send me Instructions" for a new account
3) Enter in invalid email address text (eg.  myemail)
4) Verify no error alert shown doesnt reflect a bad email address, but instead a general 400 error message

Expected:
- tailored alert for bad email

Comment 1

[Tony Chung [:tchung]]

Moving FFHome-related bugs to new component -> Firefox Home

Comment 2

[Allison Naaktgeboren :ally]

The Firefox Home project has been retired, and Mozilla will no longer invest in future work on this project [1]. All bugs related to Firefox Home are being mass resolved.

For those interested in continuing work on this app, the source code for Firefox Home is available on Github [2].

[1] http://blog.mozilla.org/services/2012/08/31/retiring-firefox-home/
[2] https://github.com/mozilla-services/ios-sync-client