[tyndale-devel] Crosswire bookmarks and initial sketch of user login

[David Instone-Brewer]

Sounds right to store in cookies when offline.
What about a once-per-session message to say "Working offline, so 
data is saved only on this computer" or something like that.

David IB


At 16:16 22/03/2011, Chris Burrell wrote:
>Sounds good, so basically we want to store it in the database.
>
>Do we also want to store it in the cookie? I can see issues where 
>for some reason persisting failed (say connection dropped, or user 
>leaves before response is acknowledged). At which point, we end up 
>having cookie/database out of sync.
>
>An alternative would be store in the cookie if not logged on, and 
>then persist in database if logged on (both for bookmarks and 
>history). However, that does mean that user somehow needs to know 
>that the bookmarks he his bookmarking or the history he is viewing 
>might not get carried over.
>
>Chris
>
>
>
>On 22 March 2011 10:02, David Instone-Brewer 
><<mailto:Technical at tyndale.cam.ac.uk>Technical at tyndale.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>Stupidly I hadn't thought about Bookmarks migrating from computer to computer!
>I think I'd like my history to migrate too - to cope with the 
>situation of "I'm sure I read something yesterday about this".
>And the data is so tiny, we might as well make it endless, but only 
>load up the last ten with an option for "more".
>
>Seeing as I didn't think of it, I guess the average Jo won't think 
>of it either.
>It might be worth pointing this out at the signup stage:
>"Login to recall every passage you've read on any computer" - or 
>something like that.
>
>David IB
>
>
>At 09:29 22/03/2011, Chris Burrell wrote:
>>I agree that in some respects it is strange. The rationale behind 
>>having to log on for Bookmarks and not history is that history is 
>>something people expect to be able to clear from their cookies. 
>>Bookmarks I would expect to be able to get back to at a later date 
>>or on a different computer. If I were using a different PC, would I 
>>expect to see my bookmarks and/or my history? My feeling is that at 
>>least the bookmarks where I've intentionally said "bookmark this!" 
>>I'd like to see all over the place. The problem is that if we don't 
>>get people to log in, then we can't track their bookmarks across 
>>anything but a cookie which is valid for that particular 
>>session/until the cookies get cleared.
>>
>>Maybe it's a bit like a wishlist and the history on Amazon. With 
>>the history you kind of expect them to track it With the wishlist 
>>it's tied to your account a bit more.
>>
>>perhaps the history should be tracked server side as well. Happy to 
>>make changes, but thought I'd try and explain why it is so, first. 
>>(obviously the login prompt will come up for other features as well 
>>if they require logging in).
>>
>>Any thoughts?
>>Chris
>>
>>
>>On 21 March 2011 20:02, David Instone-Brewer 
>><<mailto:davidinstonebrewer at gmail.com> davidinstonebrewer at gmail.com> wrote:
>>Yep - that works nicely.
>>It seems strange though - you don't expect to log in for this.
>>What about putting registration at Install Bibles instead, and 
>>reserve login for notes and other personal stuff?
>>You often have to give an email address to download stuff nowadays, 
>>so it seems more normal.
>>The blinds in the middle work really nicely.
>>David IB
>>
>>At 18:19 21/03/2011, Chris Burrell wrote:
>>>There should be a new version of STEP on 
>>><http://crosswire.org/~chrisburrell>http://crosswire.org/~chrisburrell
>>>It should contain Bookmarks (well viewing them). There's some test 
>>>code in there at the moment, to automatically create a user in a 
>>>in-memory database:
>>>
>>>username/email: t at t.c
>>>password: password
>>>The user can't do anything, so the data is not particularly 
>>>sensitive! You can register another user if you like (again, if i 
>>>rebuild this disappears, and it's not encrypted or anything like 
>>>that at the moment).
>>>Once logged in, you should be able to see two bookmarks. The 
>>>history should now also be based on cookies, so that when you come 
>>>back later, whatever passage you were viewing is there. The data 
>>>displayed under "History" is stored in the cookie too and 
>>>therefore persists across sessions. History is stored in the 
>>>in-memory database and therefore is only available when you log in.
>>>NOTE: There is a noticeable gap where the user can't delete a gap 
>>>(also, if the tomcat server gets restarted, or when i redeploy, 
>>>then the data disappears!)
>>>Chris
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