Server-side deletes don't propagate

[avram]

Maybe we can do a background process that goes through collections and items, looking for updates?

[mlt]

Wouldn't this approach eat resources, e.g. battery at least? Is there a zotero API for "get a list of deleted items since last request"?

[avram]

Unfortunately, the Zotero API isn't really designed for maintaining a complete, synced copy of the database, so it doesn't provide delete records (although that may happen in the future).

Maybe we could trigger a background request for updates whenever an item or collection is viewed? Then we can notify the user that the item (or collection) was deleted remotely and either push it back to the server or delete it locally as well.

[mlt]

I think it is a good idea. This approach can also help with #72 while API is not there.

[avram]

We can use format=keys to do this and some other bits efficiently now.

[avram]

Just for reference, we need server-side deletes of collections to happen as well.