MerginMaps / MerginMaps/mobile

Better handle network issues

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Description

Sometimes users are getting failures when downloading data:

  • "Software caused connection abort."
  • "Connection closed."

It seems these happen when there are network issues - and they may happen after few minutes after a request for a file (but seen a failure reported in logs after 2 hours since the request!)

We should try to be more resilient to such errors, especially if there are a few GB of data to download. Maybe we should be able to recognize a half-downloaded project and continue where the download got stuck.

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Research direction

Start by locating the mobile app's data-download handling and examining how connection-abort and connection-closed failures are reported. Investigate whether a partially downloaded project can be recognized and resumed, including failures after long transfers; done means large downloads tolerate these network interruptions or resume without restarting.

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Assessment

Domain
mobile, networking
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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