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[Andrea Bernabei <andrea.bernabei@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Oct 19, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Alberto Mardegan <
alberto.mardegan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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
>
>
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