Re: [SyncEvolution] Syncevolution configuration..
On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly(a)intel.com> wrote:
On Mo, 2011-09-05 at 12:39 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm writing a Evolution EPlugin for an Active Sync backend. Currently
> it does only mail and for calendar & contacts it needs to depend on
> syncevolution. Any doc/sample code on how I could create this
> configuration externally? gconf/xml/configuration need to be setup?
The "right" way of doing it is via the D-Bus API:
http://api.syncevolution.org/
As a short-term hack it would also be possible to invoke the command
line tool for manipulating the configuration. But that will make it
harder to handle errors.
I'll check both the options. If the DBus approach is complete &
possible, I could try to do it that way.
So in the API, see the GetConfig/SetConfig() calls. To understand how
to
use the API, you also need to understand the SyncEvolution configuration
options (see "syncevolution --sync-property ?" and "syncevolution
--source-property ?") and a bit about the concepts behind the
configuration:
http://syncevolution.org/development/configuration-handling
There was a mail discussion about correct use of the API:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.mobile.syncevolution/2468/focus=2499
Can you say a bit more about the kind of options that the Evolution
EPlugin shall offer? Then I can give more specific guidance.
So, this EPlugin is similar to any other Enterprise plugin
(Groupwise/Exchange OWA/Exchange MAPI), which when a evolution mail
account is created would create a corresponding calendar/contact
configuration. Here for EAS, instead of creating a direct ESource, I'd
create a SyncEvolution cfg to sync calendar & contacts.
Will there be a 1:1 match between an ActiveSync database and a local EDS
database? Note that currently listing the existing ActiveSync databases
is not supported; can be added.
I probably didn;t understand it well. But I haven't looked any deep in
to the ActiveSync, so can't really say. I'll dig more.
I assume syncing will be done automatically by SyncEvolution (currently
based on polling, needs to be replaced with push by server and local
change detection, both not implemented yet)?
Yes, Syncing will be done via SyncEvolution.
-Srini