On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Alberto Mardegan < [email protected]> wrote:
> On 19.10.2015 11:54, Jonas Drange wrote: > > I want to argue that this logic be placed elsewhere. If/when > > account-polld becomes unnecessary, we lose this logic. So any code we > > add to account-polld that we want for all time, essentially becomes > > technical debt. > > > > And if a Google account is broken, who is going to tell the user if > > account-polld does not “see” it? If account-polld is the canary in the > > accounts mine, then a broken Google account only accessed by calendard > > and contacts, will stay silently broken. > > The account is not broken :-) The cached authentication token is either > expired or has been somehow invalidated, and also the cookies which we > store for this account are also expired or anyway the web server wants > to have some interaction with the user, for whatever reason. The account > might still be usable by other applications (which use a different > application key); we really don't know. > The fact that account-polld encounters this error means that any other > app *using the same application key* as account-polld will meet the same > error. I would argue that no other app should use the same key, so the > problem lies almost entirely on the app which encounters the error. > > In order to solve the authentication issue with account-polld we need to > find a UI process which can repeat the authentication with the same > account, using the application key from account-polld. This could be > Dekko, or indeed it could be some component in Online Accounts itself. > > (the notification which you see in the descktop indeed comes from OA > itself: it caches all the parameters of the failed request, and re-plays > it when the user clicks on the "Grant access" button on the account.) > > I believe that we could have something similar on the phone, but since > the amount of work (and risk) is quite considerable, I'd rather wait to > see the UX designers' plan on how this should work UX-wise, and then > come up with a technical solution which implements that. > > Is there a bug already to track that? Does UX know that you're waiting for such a solution? If either of the answer is false, we have to fix that first :) > Ciao, > Alberto > > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-phone > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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