aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/core/checkcloudconnection.h
AgeCommit message (Collapse)Author
2021-04-19cloudstorage: try alternative server if first connection failsGravatar Dirk Hohndel
If we can't reach our preferred server, try using a different one. The diff makes more sense when ignoring white space. With this we check the connection to the cloud server much earlier and in case of failure to connect try a different cloud_base_url. Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
2021-04-19cloudstorage: try to pick between multiple cloud serversGravatar Dirk Hohndel
The backend infrastructure will soon be able to support more than one cloud server which automagically stay in sync with each other. One critical requirement for that to work is that once a session was started with one of the servers, the complete session happens with that server - we must not switch from server to server while doing a git transaction. To make sure that's the case, we aren't trying to use DNS tricks to make this load balancing scheme work, but instead try to determine at program start which server is the best one to use. Right now this is super simplistic. Two servers, one in the US, one in Europe. By default we use the European server (most of our users appear to be in Europe), but if we can figure out that the client is actually in the Americas, use the US server. We might improve that heuristic over time, but as a first attempt it seems not entirely bogus. The way this is implemented is a simple combination of two free webservices that together appear to give us a very reliable estimate which continent the user is located on. api.ipify.org gives us our external IP address ip-api.com gives us the continent that IP address is on If any of this fails or takes too long to respond, we simply ignore it since either server will work. One oddity is that if we decide to change servers we only change the settings that are stored on disk, not the runtime preferences. This goes back to the comment above that we have to avoid changing servers in mid sync. Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
2019-04-12get rid of some foreach and Q_FOREACH constructsGravatar Rolf Eike Beer
See https://www.kdab.com/goodbye-q_foreach/ This is reduced to the places where the container is const or can be made const without the need to always introduce an extra variable. Sadly qAsConst (Qt 5.7) and std::as_const (C++17) are not available in all supported setups. Also do some minor cleanups along the way. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de>
2017-12-06Remove self-include of core/checkcloudconnection.hGravatar Berthold Stoeger
Signed-off-by: Berthold Stoeger <bstoeger@mail.tuwien.ac.at>
2017-04-29Add SPDX header to remaining core filesGravatar Dirk Hohndel
Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
2016-04-04Move subsurface-core to core and qt-mobile to mobile-widgetsGravatar Dirk Hohndel
Having subsurface-core as a directory name really messes with autocomplete and is obviously redundant. Simmilarly, qt-mobile caused an autocomplete conflict and also was inconsistent with the desktop-widget name for the directory containing the "other" UI. And while cleaning up the resulting change in the path name for include files, I decided to clean up those even more to make them consistent overall. This could have been handled in more commits, but since this requires a make clean before the build, it seemed more sensible to do it all in one. Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>