987878 - A way to communicate settings from Contacts app to the contacts backup service

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: FxA, defect)

Description

[Jed Parsons (use needinfo, please) [:jedp, :jparsons]]

When the user configures the Contacts backup service in Contacts Settings, those settings need to make their way to the backup service app, which is not part of the communication app.

One solution would be to send them via the IAC API whenever they change, and let the backup service store them locally.

At this point, we haven't decided whether there's an fxa-attached storage service, or an API for using fxa credentials to encrypt/decrypt local indexedDB storage (as a convenience), so for now, I think we just store the credentials in plaintext in the backup app.

Comment 1

[Jed Parsons (use needinfo, please) [:jedp, :jparsons]]

This was accomplished for the purposes of our prototype here:

https://github.com/jedp/gaia-contact-sync/commits/master

Beyond that, this bug makes assumptions about UX that Cloud Services and FirefoxOS UX may dispute, so the allusion to Contacts Settings in the Description should be disregarded.