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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0008509 | Taler | wallet (Android App) | public | 2024-02-23 15:27 | 2024-04-15 19:32 |
| Reporter | Florian Dold | Assigned To | grote | Resolution deadline | |
| Implementer | Reviewer | ||||
| Release signed by | Deployed by | ||||
| Verifier | Communicator | ||||
| Data protection authority notification required | No | ||||
| CSIRT notification required | No | ||||
| Estimated effort (hours) | Actual effort (hours) | 0 | |||
| Fast-track | No | ||||
| Work package | none | ||||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | closed | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Target Version | 0.10 | Fixed in Version | 0.10 | ||
| Summary | 0008509: show observability events in Android UI in dev mode | ||||
| Description | When in dev mode, instead of showing a spinner, we should render a list of observability events from wallet-core. Also in the transactions view, we can show the observability events for tasks of that transaction. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Have we agreed on a UI for this already? How should the observability events be rendered and which ones should be displayed when? I would not like this to be overtly obtrusive, not even for developers. It should never clutter the IU. What I'm thinking about is a global toolbar button that shows a popup with all the observability events displayed in real time. At what frequency are these events generated by wallet-core? Should I worry about the event list moving too fast that it will be hard to keep track of? | |
| The event list is likely to be moving rather fast! It shows every single HTTP request, crypto operation and even DB transaction that wallet-core does. Marc had a prototype where he showed logs (that was before observability events!) in some kind of floating overlay window. That sounds pretty similar to the popup that you're suggesting! We could either do this or we can show it "inline" as a replacement of the full-screen loading indicator. | |
| Also, ideally we in the settings there should be an option to export the buffer of recent observability events, so we can send this around for diagnostics *after* a problem occurred. | |
| Where's the documentation for this feature? | |
| We should soon show in the UIs what is happening whenever we're blocked/waiting/spinning. I just today got another report from Michael R, saying that he tried to do a P2P payment with a student and just got a spinning wheel (iOS). He blamed it on the network (after all, the saying goes that if you want Internet at our university, try turning OFF the wifi), but we cannot be sure that he was right without any information shown on the screen. So it would be good if we had a way to show ("waiting on DNS", "waiting on TLS", "waiting on HTTP", "computing" (crypto)) in small-ish but readable text below the spinner if just to help us diagnose such issues! Right now, I get these reports and cannot even say if it is the BFH network or a major bug in our code! So fixing 0008509 (and equivalent on iOS) matters! | |
| I'm almost done with that, implementing right now, should be ready soon. | |
| Initial implementation in dev/ivan-avalos/observability, awaiting Torsten feedback and review. | |
| implemented as of https://git.taler.net/taler-android.git/commit/?id=e33bc723687328eec69e7580dd3e5698d4679167 | |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-02-23 15:27 | Florian Dold | New Issue | |
| 2024-02-23 15:27 | Florian Dold | Status | new => assigned |
| 2024-02-23 15:27 | Florian Dold | Assigned To | => avalos |
| 2024-03-15 21:53 | avalos | Assigned To | avalos => Florian Dold |
| 2024-03-15 21:53 | avalos | Status | assigned => feedback |
| 2024-03-15 21:53 | avalos | Note Added: 0021937 | |
| 2024-03-25 20:08 | Florian Dold | Note Added: 0021991 | |
| 2024-03-25 20:08 | Florian Dold | Assigned To | Florian Dold => avalos |
| 2024-03-25 20:08 | Florian Dold | Note Added: 0021992 | |
| 2024-03-25 20:08 | Florian Dold | Status | feedback => assigned |
| 2024-03-26 15:58 | avalos | Note Added: 0022000 | |
| 2024-03-27 18:32 | Christian Grothoff | Note Added: 0022015 | |
| 2024-03-27 18:33 | avalos | Note Added: 0022016 | |
| 2024-03-27 20:46 | avalos | Assigned To | avalos => grote |
| 2024-03-27 20:46 | avalos | Status | assigned => feedback |
| 2024-03-27 20:46 | avalos | Note Added: 0022026 | |
| 2024-04-01 12:38 | grote | Status | feedback => informing |
| 2024-04-01 12:38 | grote | Resolution | open => fixed |
| 2024-04-01 12:38 | grote | Note Added: 0022079 | |
| 2024-04-09 11:11 | Christian Grothoff | Fixed in Version | => 0.10 |
| 2024-04-15 19:32 | Christian Grothoff | Status | informing => closed |