Our Forge app uses the Key-Value Store to store some data. When we uninstall and reinstall the app, all the data in storage is immediately removed. This is happening in both development and production environments. Is this intentional behavior? I believe the data should be retained for some time in case the user changes their mind and wants to reinstall the app.
Very sadly, it is “intended behavior”. See Forge Storage data persistency behaviour
Only Atlassian seems to think it is a good practice and didn’t seem to want to re-evaluate their stance in the post I provided.
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We just observed this after uninstalling our Forge app… All the app data is lost without any warning if the app is uninstalled (even if you reinstall it right after). This can’t happen!
It should be preserved at least for a while, maybe it was a temporary uninstall, followed by a reinstall, which can happen in real-life when debugging or trying to fix various issues.
With Connect apps the data was always preserved, customers expect the same from Forge apps.
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