778959 - Android Sync should support same Sync account name on different servers

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Android Sync, defect, P3)

Description

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

In many places, Android Sync is careful to include the server URL with the Sync account name (for example, when storing prefs).  Unfortunately the actual Android Account name is just the Sync account name, so you can't have "[e-mail]" using "auth.services.mozilla.com" and "[e-mail]" using "mysyncserver.com".

Comment 1

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

To be clear: the issue is that you can't *create* two Android Account objects with the same name ([e-mail]) and type (org.mozilla.firefox_sync).

Comment 2

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

10:48 rnewman: well, it's future work, right?
10:48 rnewman: not even relevant now
10:48 rnewman: and it's probably small
10:49 nalexander: What do you suggest doing?  [e-mail] at unintelligible.server.login.com?  That's lame.
10:49 rnewman: if it just comes down to presentation, it's such an edge case that I don't care
10:49 rnewman: Android will just show the name of the account
10:49 nalexander: You can't create two android accounts with the same naem.
10:50 rnewman: then wontfix
10:50 rnewman: not going to impact the UI presentation for 99.9% of users to cater to that case
10:52 rnewman: firstly, does no harm; secondly, will save our bacon if we alter the default server URL and need to wipe/migrate prefs, rather than reusing