Better experience to control DataStore model synchronization

[HuiSF]

Description

This issue is for tracking possible improvements on model synchronization with DataStore.

1. Make it configurable to specify certain models to be excluded from DataStore sync engine, while still being able to operate these models in local DB
2. Make it configurable to specify certain models to be excluded from DataStore local functionalities, i.e. when device is offline, DataStore APIs take no effect on these excluded models, but these models can be mutated or synced when the device is online
3. Make it configurable to allow programmatically stop sync engine completely at runtime, and to remain the stopped state until DataStore.start is invoked
4. ...

Categories

• Analytics
• API (REST)
• API (GraphQL)
• Auth
• Authenticator
• DataStore
• Storage

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Platforms

• iOS
• Android

Android Device/Emulator API Level

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[vgribok]

Another case for excluding some model types from syncing is if owner user is not authorized to access a type. For example, with a dynamic group authorization, typical for multi-tenant back-office applications, a type may be fully inaccessible to the current mobile user, which currently will fail the sync, while in reality it's a valid use case needing to simply skip the sync of an unauthorized type.