Google Sync support

[devnull69]

Hi there

is it planned to change the extension to store the options and extension information (and everything else currently located in localStorage) in Google Sync? If not, I could implement it in my fork and send a pull request afterwards ...

Regards
Thomas

[phaistonian]

Hey Thomas.

I was planning to implement some sort of syncing using BSync (used in Chrome Notepad extension), but unfortunately spare time is not something easy to find any more.

That said, It'd be great if you could provide Google Sync functionality and I will be more than happy to merge it.

[devnull69]

Would you prefer to let the user choose between localStorage and Google sync or should Google sync be the preferred way with localStorage as a fallback?

[phaistonian]

Both will do do.

In fact, utilising both methods (transparently) would probably be the way to go.

Again, it's up to you :-)

[kzahel]

Again I lost my list of apps :-(. I might create a pull request having the extension use chrome.storage.sync instead of localStorage, which seems to get destroyed pretty frequently

[phaistonian]

@kzahel: Wow, I had no idea such an API was implemented (I haven been away from extensions for quite some time).

Yes, that 'd be ideal.

Please create this pull request, I am sure more people will be benefited from such a change.

[kzahel]

kzahel@f687e00
I tried real quick to see if doing the braindead thing would work, but it's not working very well because of what appears to be race conditions when saving to the "data" key asynchronously. So it's going to take a little refactoring ... :-(

[kzahel]

kzahel@8776300

Did a little more work, it's going to take a lot of testing before I feel it's stable at all though. I'm not sure if it's broken other things yet.

I think it would make sense to only store the list of extensions in the chrome.storage.sync and the other data (ratings, etc) in the chrome.storage.local

[phaistonian]

True, that would make perfect sense.

Thank you for your efforts.

[phaistonian]

Hey @kzahel.

Any progress with this long-standing issue?

Wow, I had no idea such an API was implemented (I haven been away from extensions for quite some time).

Yes, that 'd be ideal.

Please create this pull request, I am sure more people will be benefited from such a change.

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