736216 - Provide a way for Sync to query if a database exists yet

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

Add a new content provider so that sync can query what's going on. It can provide info on whether a database exists yet, and whether Gecko is currently running and can set up the database (aka, "check back soon!" vs. "its gonna be a while").

I think maybe we can just have a special path for the forms/password/other things inheriting GeckoProvider for this. When we look up the table name, we can just short circuit these to return... something. Probably only on query or inserts to this fake "table".

Comment 1

[Allison Naaktgeboren :ally]

rnewman notes that is not quite correct. The DB should be created in the content provider's onCreate()

Comment 2

[Allison Naaktgeboren :ally]

"This shouldn't be necessary; databases should be set up within onCreate. The only reason for having a "control" URI (as BrowserProvider does) is to support migration.
(Which necessarily takes longer than we can wait.)
If setup can be done within a minute or two (and if it can be done on first run, that must be the case), just block the CP operation and do it." -- rnewman

Comment 3

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Control URI:

Bug 725150

Note that that's not "does this database exist?" it's "should I hold off because something else is adding data to these that I want to wait for?".

If a database doesn't exist, it's the CP's job to create it. If that involves loading some part of Gecko, then so be it...

Comment 4

[Allison Naaktgeboren :ally]

mobile triage: (-) & do we even need this bug anymore? can we close it? mfinkle & blassey believe the silent start of fennec addresses the underlying issue.

Comment 5

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