Add support for Google SignIn without SDK #20128

mokagio · 2023-02-13T03:03:21Z

Relies on the changes in WordPress Authenticator 5.6.0 to run Google SignIn without the Google SDK, plus the fixes for issues found after integrating, see wordpress-mobile/WordPressAuthenticator-iOS#764 and wordpress-mobile/WordPressAuthenticator-iOS#762. See also wordpress-mobile/WordPressAuthenticator-iOS#741

The behavior is off by default for App Store build, on otherwise. That is, App Store builds will still use the SDK, but all other builds won't. This should give us time to test the new implementation internally and see if we run against hard edges.

Testing

Given the "on internally" configuration, one can verify that Google SignIn doesn't use the SDK by adding a breakpoint in GoogleAuthenticator.swift (a file from the WordPressAuthenticator pod) line 190 (or wherever you prefer in that method or other methods in the Google authentication chain) and attempting to login with Google:

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Repeat by either changing the hardcoded value or by enabling the flag from the in-app debug view and restarting the app (from Xcode, given we're interested in breakpoints) and observe the breakpoint being hit.

Regression Notes

Potential unintended areas of impact – App authentication
What I did to test those areas of impact (or what existing automated tests I relied on) – The logic is thoroughly tested at the WordPress Authenticator level
What automated tests I added (or what prevented me from doing so) – I started working on some at the library level but run into issues because of MFA.

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I need to create a new account via Google to see if it works. I don't see why because the only thing we do on our side is getting a token and email pair to pass to the WordPress API.
It would be good to add some logging to monitor the behavior in production

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I have considered adding unit tests for my changes. N.A.
I have considered adding accessibility improvements for my changes. N.A.
I have considered if this change warrants user-facing release notes and have added them to RELEASE-NOTES.txt if necessary. N.A.

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mokagio · 2023-03-21T03:21:03Z

WordPress/Classes/ViewRelated/NUX/WordPressAuthenticationManager.swift

+        let googleLogingWithoutSDK: Bool = {
+            switch BuildConfiguration.current {
+            case .appStore:
+                // Rely on the remote flag in production
+                return RemoteFeatureFlagStore().value(for: FeatureFlag.sdkLessGoogleSignIn)
+            case _:
+                // Do whatever is hardcoded or overridden on device in non-production builds
+                return FeatureFlag.sdkLessGoogleSignIn.enabled
+            }
+        }()


@hassaanelgarem @momo-ozawa you've been working on feature flags right?

Is this a reasonable approach? I was surprised by having to use a dedicated store to read remote values instead of accessing them directly from FeatureFlag.<case>.enabled so I'm not sure whether I'm using it right.

I considered moving this logic into the enabled implementation, but realized it would have created an infinite loop in case the value was not found remotely 😅

I was surprised by having to use a dedicated store to read remote values instead of accessing them directly from FeatureFlag..enabled

Yes, using remote feature flags is really unintuitive at the moment, but coincidently, this is something I'm working on fixing during HACK week (we're having a late HACK week within our team cause we were on release rotation during the original week). Ref: pbArwn-5Uc-p2#comment-7452

Is this a reasonable approach?

Yes, this looks reasonable. However, you could also ditch the whole switch and only depend on RemoteFeatureFlagStore.value(for:). Currently, value(for:) returns the overridden value if it exists. If not, it returns the remote value if it exists. If not, it returns the default (hardcoded) value. If you've added the switch just to facilitate testing, you can consider removing it. If it serves a different purpose, then this looks good 👍

FYI: There's a known issue where if you have a remote flag that is remotely set to true, you can't override it to return false. This is also something I'm working on fixing now.

Thank you for the feedback @hassaanelgarem 🙇‍♂️

However, you could also ditch the whole switch and only depend on RemoteFeatureFlagStore.value(for:). Currently, value(for:) returns the overridden value if it exists. If not, it returns the remote value if it exists. If not, it returns the default (hardcoded) value.

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Interesting. Maybe there's a way to move those build-time configuration at the feature toggle level then? I'd like to force it to true for testing within Automattic, but start as false in production.

I'll look into it and update if necessary.

I'll look into it and update if necessary.

For the record, I've rebased and adopted the new syntax vai e91ca3c

mokagio · 2023-03-29T01:24:04Z

WordPress/Classes/ViewRelated/NUX/LoginEpilogueUserInfo.swift

-        switch service {
-        case .google(let user):
-            fullName = user.profile?.name ?? String()
-            email = user.profile?.email ?? String()
-        case .apple(let user):
-            fullName = user.fullName
-            email = user.email
-        }
+        fullName = service.user.fullName
+        email = service.user.email


At the WordPressAuthenticator level, both cases now have the same associated type (because we no longer rely on Google's GIDGoogleUser. user is a computed var on SocialService that hides away that switch and unwrapping logic. See wordpress-mobile/WordPressAuthenticator-iOS#764

mokagio · 2023-03-30T11:45:26Z

I need to create a new account via Google to see if it works. I don't see why because the only thing we do on our side is getting a token and email pair to pass to the WordPress API.

Of course, it didn't work out of the box 🙃 But the issue was not with the APIs but with the port. See wordpress-mobile/WordPressAuthenticator-iOS#764

It would be good to add some logging to monitor the behavior in production

I since discovered that we already have extensive events tracked. There is little additional value in adding more to track whether we are using the Google SDK compared to the amount of code we'd need to write.

peril-wordpress-mobile · 2023-03-30T11:48:46Z

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mokagio · 2023-03-30T11:50:31Z

Podfile

-  pod 'WordPressAuthenticator', '~> 5.6-beta'
-  # pod 'WordPressAuthenticator', git: 'https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPressAuthenticator-iOS.git', branch: 'trunk'
+  # pod 'WordPressAuthenticator', '~> 5.6-beta'
+  pod 'WordPressAuthenticator', git: 'https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPressAuthenticator-iOS.git', branch: 'mokagio/social-service-without-google'


I'll point back to trunk once the PR for this branch (wordpress-mobile/WordPressAuthenticator-iOS#764) is merged and before merging this.

mokagio · 2023-04-03T01:03:27Z

Just a note to say that I'll start the 22.1 code freeze soon but I'll leave this PR in 22.1 aiming to ship it with a followup beta.

The reason I want to do this is to avoid delaying the testing of the Google SignIn without SDK in the real world for other two weeks.

crazytonyli · 2023-04-03T08:05:38Z

WordPress/Classes/ViewRelated/NUX/WordPressAuthenticationManager.swift

+            case .appStore:
+                // Rely on the remote flag in production
+                return RemoteFeatureFlag.sdkLessGoogleSignIn.enabled(using: remoteFeaturesStore)
+            case _:


I guess it makes sense that the _ syntax would compile here. But I think default is more suitable for "all other cases"?

But look at how homogeneous it looks with only case. 😄

I never dug this up, but I don't see any mention of case _ in the Swift book. Also taking into account the more relatively recent @unknown default syntax, it makes sense to prefer default.

I believe the usage of _ here falls into the Wildcard Pattern

While `case _` works, `default` is the recommended syntax. See conversation at #20128 (comment)

mokagio · 2023-04-05T04:14:35Z

Ouch! I should have updated the target branch 🤦‍♂️ This was supposed to land on release/22.1 not trunk!

The damage is done now. While I'd love to get real world feedback ASAP, I don't think it's worth jumping through hoops to cherry pick these changes into the release branch. 😞

There were conflicts on `Podfile` and `Podfile.lock` because `release/22.1` and `trunk` both changed the Gutenberg version. As usual, I resolved them with `git checkout --theirs`, keeping the value from `trunk` under the assumption that the latest version of Gutenberg, 1.93.0-alpha2, is what `trunk` needs to work and that if the 1.92.1 hotfix hasn't already been integrated in the latest release, it will be soon and the Gutenberg team will followup with a new version update on `trunk`. There was also a conflict on the `RELEASE-NOTES.txt` that GitHub picked up with its more refined conflicts engine and that auto-merge didn't address properly but that I manually fixed. That was due to `release/22.1` adding new release note entries – which will not make it into the App Store release notes – in the 22.1 section and `trunk` having #20128 editing that section, too. #20128 was meant to land on `release/22.1` but I forgot to update the base branch after starting the code freeze 🤦‍♂️😭 ``` <<<<<<< release/22.1 -- Incoming Change * [**] Add a "Personalize Home Tab" button to the bottom of the Home tab that allows changing cards visibility. [#20369] * [*] [Reader] Fix an issue that was causing the app to crash when tapping the More or Share buttons in Reader Detail screen. [#20490] * [*] Block editor: Avoid empty Gallery block error [WordPress/gutenberg#49557] ======= * [**] [internal] Refactored Google SignIn implementation to not use the Google SDK [#20128] >>>>>>> trunk -- Current Change ```

There were conflicts on `Podfile` and `Podfile.lock` because `release/22.1` and `trunk` both changed the Gutenberg version. As usual, I resolved them with `git checkout --theirs`, keeping the value from `trunk` under the assumption that the latest version of Gutenberg, 1.93.0-alpha2, is what `trunk` needs to work and that if the 1.92.1 hotfix hasn't already been integrated in the latest release, it will be soon and the Gutenberg team will followup with a new version update on `trunk`. There was also a conflict on the `RELEASE-NOTES.txt` that GitHub picked up with its more refined conflicts engine and that auto-merge didn't address properly but that I manually fixed. That was due to `release/22.1` adding new release note entries – which will not make it into the App Store release notes – in the 22.1 section and `trunk` having #20128 editing that section, too. #20128 was meant to land on `release/22.1` but I forgot to update the base branch after starting the code freeze 🤦‍♂️😭 Also, the entry about the personalize home tab had been removed on `trunk` via ec8a377. The release notes editor was notified about it, #20483 (review) ``` <<<<<<< release/22.1 -- Incoming Change * [**] Add a "Personalize Home Tab" button to the bottom of the Home tab that allows changing cards visibility. [#20369] * [*] [Reader] Fix an issue that was causing the app to crash when tapping the More or Share buttons in Reader Detail screen. [#20490] * [*] Block editor: Avoid empty Gallery block error [WordPress/gutenberg#49557] ======= * [**] [internal] Refactored Google SignIn implementation to not use the Google SDK [#20128] >>>>>>> trunk -- Current Change ```

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