Closed Bug 699850 (asyncHistory) Opened 13 years ago Closed 7 years ago

[meta] Refactor all synchronous history APIs to use async Storage APIs

Categories

(Toolkit :: Places, defect, P2)

defect

Tracking

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RESOLVED FIXED
mozilla62
Performance Impact ?
Tracking Status
firefox62 --- fixed

People

(Reporter: mak, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 2 open bugs)

Details

(Keywords: meta, perf, Whiteboard: [snappy:p1] [tracking])

All of the history APIs used in browsing and Sync are already async, we should remove and replace all the remainig synchronous APIs. This may require some deep test rewriting, but we can do fake-sync wrappers for that.
Alias: asyncHistory
Assignee: nobody → dteller
I'll take it, but I'll need some help to get started.
I think you choose the hardest one, this will have to be splitted in a lot of smaller bugs, but don't want to scare you :) History changes (in form of visits addition or removal) in the browser UI are already using async APIs, but we have to convert all of nsIBrowserHistory and nsINavHistoryService (there also other interfaces, but those are mostly dependent on these and should be done later). A first dependent bug may be to deprecate addVisit and addPageWithDetails, that are used in a LOT of tests, to avoid rewriting all the tests we can likely write an addVisit wrapper that uses updatePlaces async API and spin the events loop till we get the callback. We should push people toward updatePlaces API. Related to this, we should rewrite the importExport service (bug 482911), hsivonen wanted to do that but he's likely really busy. If we kill any possibility to add visits synchronously, we can likely start converting nsIBrowserHistory the other methods, like removals. If you prefer starting from a smaller project, Favicons service has to be finished (is partially async) and has less connections to other services. Bug 672681 is another interesting entry point.
hm I said the importExport service, but I meant the migrators, whatever uses addPageWithDetails.
De-assigning myself in case someone wants to take it. Otherwise, I will eventually return to it.
Assignee: dteller → nobody
Depends on: 739217
Depends on: 739218
No longer blocks: placesSessionID
Depends on: 739219
This is basically a tracking bug, so making it properly that.
Keywords: meta
Whiteboard: [snappy]
Whiteboard: [snappy] → [snappy:p1]
Depends on: 615213
No longer depends on: 739217
Depends on: 648232
Blocks: 648232
No longer depends on: 648232
Depends on: 834457
Depends on: 834539
Depends on: 834541
Depends on: 834543
No longer depends on: 700250
Depends on: placesSessionID
Depends on: 846635
Depends on: 846636
Depends on: 846644
Depends on: 854925
Depends on: 854927
Depends on: 860625
Depends on: 870581
No longer depends on: 870581
Depends on: 885247
Whiteboard: [snappy:p1] → [snappy:p1][triage]
Whiteboard: [snappy:p1][triage] → [snappy:p1]
Whiteboard: [snappy:p1] → [snappy:p1] [tracking]
Blocks: OMTPlaces
No longer blocks: fxdesktopbacklog
No longer blocks: StorageJank
Depends on: 1089332
Depends on: 1090312
No longer depends on: 1089332
Depends on: 1090961
Depends on: 1091851
Priority: -- → P1
Keywords: perf
Depends on: 1350377
Depends on: 1354531
Whiteboard: [snappy:p1] [tracking] → [snappy:p1] [tracking][qf:meta]
Depends on: 1365913
Priority: P1 → P5
Summary: Refactor all synchronous history APIs to use async Storage APIs → [meta] Refactor all synchronous history APIs to use async Storage APIs
Blocks: 1365913
No longer depends on: 1365913
Priority: P5 → P2
Depends on: 1459856
Blocks: 1458910
And... 1 is gone.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → mozilla62
mak, is this something you'd like to note for 62 release?
Flags: needinfo?(mak77)
Maybe on MDN and not in the release notes. Let me know what you think.
(In reply to Liz Henry (:lizzard) (needinfo? me) from comment #8) > mak, is this something you'd like to note for 62 release? It's mostly an internal detail, the most common operations were already converted in the past, this changed a few remaining APIs that are less often used (but still, when you hit one of these the jank is unprodictable). I don't think it's facing users so easily to deserve a relnote.
Flags: needinfo?(mak77)
Performance Impact: --- → ?
Whiteboard: [snappy:p1] [tracking][qf:meta] → [snappy:p1] [tracking]
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