MobileNativeFoundation / MobileNativeFoundation/Store
Enable override of eager conflict resolution strategy
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Description
Problem
Android docs have guidance on conflict resolution once network is available. But they don’t consider cases of certain network services remaining unavailable. See https://developer.android.com/topic/architecture/data-layer/offline-first
Example
Imagine a user who can read from server but whose writes to server always fail. Normally we will eagerly resolve conflicts by pushing local writes before requesting latest values. But in this case the user can not push the local changes. We could:
- Discard latest server value and continue to persist local changes until server write succeeds
- Overwrite local changes with latest server value
Discussion (see #store-core)
@matt-ramotar - I think 1 makes the most sense. My preference is to defer to server. On first glance for me deferring to server meant overwriting with latest server value. However I think that is incorrect. I think deferring to server really means not discarding local changes until server receives them and makes a decision.
@digitalbuddha - Some folks might want destructive reads even when local writes exist.
Decision
Defer to server by default but enable configuration when:
- Online + No Changes
- Online + Changes
- Offline + No Changes
- Offline + Changes
- Can't Update + No Changes
- Can't Update + Changes
- Can't Read + No Changes
- Can't Read + Changes
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with the conflict-resolution implementation discussed in #store-core and compare its behavior with the Android offline-first guidance linked in the issue. Trace the eager strategy across the listed online/offline and read/write-failure cases. Done means the default defers to the server while configuration supports the four currently unchecked cases.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- kotlin
- Domain
- distributed-systems
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100