There's a lot more to do, and this isn't ready for actual usage, but the
basic functionality is mostly in place and has decent test coverage. It
can successfully upgrade a library last used with classic syncing and
pull down changes via the API. Uploading mostly works but is currently
disabled for safety until it has better test coverage.
Downloaded JSON is first saved to a cache table, which is then used to
populate other tables and later for generating PATCH requests and
automatically resolving conflicts (since it shows what was changed
locally and what was changed remotely). Objects with unmet dependencies
or unknown fields are skipped for now but don't block the rest of the
sync.
Some of the bigger remaining to-dos:
- Tests for uploading
- Re-do the preferences to get an API key
- File sync integration
- Full-text syncing integration
- Manual conflict resolution (though this already includes much smarter
conflict handling that automatically resolves many conflicts)
And use it in resetDB() test support function, mainly to allow
skipBundledFiles for resetDB calls. Translator installation and
initialization can take a long time, but tests that need a clean DB
don't necessarily rely on translators. Without this, running resetDB()
in beforeEach() for many tests is prohibitively slow.
Previously, if .synced was already true, setting it to true and saving
would result in .synced == false unless skipSyncedUpdate was passed. Now
the value assigned to .synced is always used on the next save. If the
value hasn't changed and no other values have changed, a save will be a
no-op.
The default items cause problems with conflict resolution for existing
users (and not syncing them or ignoring conflicts for them is kind of
weird), and they require remote changes for new databases. I do like
there not being a completely empty library, but I think it's probably
better just to display a virtual welcome message with a link to the
Quick Start Guide somewhere else, such as in the right-hand pane. (A new
installation also opens the start page on zotero.org.)
Allow saving of CSS links over chrome://. We can scope this to
chrome://global/skin/aboutReader.css if anyone thinks of a reason why
this was disabled to begin with, but I'm not sure in what other
situations CSS it would apply.
- Restore About Zotero item
- Fix Quit item
- Close Standalone when Standalone window is closed (we did this before,
but apparently having our own hidden window breaks that mechanism)
Technically rather than waiting for the schema update we should wait for
translator initialization, which should wait for the schema update
itself, but the schema update also needs to initialize the translators,
so avoiding a hang is tricky, particularly with the use of Zotero.lazy()
for Zotero.Translators.init(). For now, just wait for the schema update.
Clicking the separate buttons would trigger actions in the first window
opened, and other things might not have been updating properly across
multiple windows.
Previously, clicking directly on a noautohide guidance panel closed it, even if
there was a forward nav button. (In the case of the main and save button
guidance panels, the save button would appear on the next Firefox restart, but
this ensures that the save guidance panel will be shown to new users even if
they click on the panel instead of the not-particularly-noticeable forward
button.)
