Thanks for getting this done, Richard. Hopefully we can start making use of
this new metadata. I know we could start filing some bugs on our mobile
clients.
Finkle
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> This has landed. Tomorrow’s desktop Nightly will upload richer client
> records; Wed or Thur’s Android Nightly likewise.
> You’ll see new payload fields:
> "device": "Nexus 7",
> "appPackage": "org.mozilla.fennec_rnewman",
> "id": "enQ9iVZLzRrN",
> "version": "36.0a1",
> "name": "Fennec rnewman on Nexus 7",
> "application": "Fennec rnewman",
> "formfactor": "smalltablet",
> "type": "mobile",
> "os": "Android",
> "protocols": [
> "1.1",
> "1.5"
> ],
> for Android, and
> "id": "6hylTLQOYPKd",
> "name": "rnewman's Nightly on jetfire",
> "type": "desktop",
> "version": "36.0a1",
> "protocols": [
> "1.1",
> "1.5"
> ],
> "os": "Darwin",
> "appPackage": "{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}",
> "application": "Nightly"
> for desktop.
> This will allow clients to tailor their iconography and descriptions; e.g.,
> using a tablet icon for Android tablets, or showing a Windows or Mac OS
> logo, or showing contextual hints that are real screenshots of the
> appropriate device OS.
> Two follow-up bugs (Bug 1100722, Bug 1100723) track adding formfactor and
> hardware fields on desktop.
> Docs are at
> <https://github.com/mozilla-services/docs/blob/master/source/sync/objectformats.rst#user-content-clients>.
> Let me know if you have any questions!
> -R
> On 6 Nov 2014, at 1:32 PM, Richard Newman <[email protected]> wrote:
> > (For context, see
> > <https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/sync-dev/2014-October/001007.html>)
> >
> > The Sync 1.5 clients format is very limited: it essentially includes name
> > and mobile/not mobile, and some version metadata that we included in 1.5
> > clients.
> >
> > I’d like to make a backwards-compatible extension to this, adding some of
> > the fields we wanted for 2.0, without bumping the collection version. See
> > here for some inspiration:
> >
> > http://docs.services.mozilla.com/sync/objectformats.html#version-2-never-deployed
> >
> > This will allow us to do things like show richer device icons in our client
> > lists.
> >
> > Does anyone have any high-level objections to this in particular, before I
> > file bugs with concrete proposed fields?
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