Re: [SyncEvolution] Syncevolution configuration..

On Mo, 2011-09-05 at 15:04 +0530, Srinivasa Ragavan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 5, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly(a)intel.com&gt; 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. It is complete. Anything that can be done via the command line can also be done via D-Bus. > 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. Your question above answers it: yes, for each ActiveSync database there will be a corresponding one locally using the EDS file backend. Your plugin will have to manage that local database (creation, removal, ...).