virtual ~ProfileSyncServiceBase() {}
- // Whether sync is enabled by user or not.
+ // Whether sync is enabled by user or not. This does not necessarily mean
+ // that sync is currently running (due to delayed startup, unrecoverable
+ // errors, or shutdown). See SyncActive below for checking whether sync
+ // is actually running.
virtual bool HasSyncSetupCompleted() const = 0;
- // Returns whether processing changes is allowed. Check this before doing
- // any model-modifying operations.
- virtual bool ShouldPushChanges() = 0;
+ // Returns true if sync is fully initialized and active. This implies that
+ // an initial configuration has successfully completed, although there may
+ // be datatype specific, auth, or other transient errors. To see which
+ // datetypes are actually syncing, see GetActiveTypes() below.
+ // Note that if sync is in backup or rollback mode, SyncActive() will be
+ // false.
+ virtual bool SyncActive() const = 0;
// Get the set of current active data types (those chosen or configured by
// the user which have not also encountered a runtime error).
+ // Note that if the Sync engine is in the middle of a configuration, this
+ // will the the empty set. Once the configuration completes the set will
+ // be updated.
virtual syncer::ModelTypeSet GetActiveDataTypes() const = 0;
// Adds/removes an observer. ProfileSyncServiceBase does not take