Thanks! This will help a lot.
Paul
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 11:35 AM, Chris Frey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 06:53:28AM -0700, Paul Eden wrote:
> > I would like to offer assistance by adding todo support to the opensync
> > plugin. I would like to sync my bb todos with other opensync plugins so
> I
> > am personally motivated.
>
> Excellent!
>
> > I'm already looking at the code, and have an idea where to begin, but if
> > anyone give me a high level overview of the things that need to be
> > added/changed (so I don't spend too long going in the wrong direction) I
> > would appreciate it.
>
> There are 3 parts to implementing this:
>
> 1) The Tasks database
>
> The Tasks database is supported for parsing, but not for building.
> Parsing is the process of taking a raw Blackberry record and
> putting
> each field into an appropriate Record class. Building is the
> reverse.
>
> Since Tasks parsing is mostly done, implementing the build routines
> should just be a matter of doing the reverse of the parse code.
>
> See the src/r_task.h and src/r_task.cc files for where this needs
> to be implemented. See the src/r_calendar.{h,cc} files for
> a guide on how the Build*() functions should work. You may be
> able to copy some of the code over. (The record classes are
> in need of a restructuring, to get rid of some code duplication,
> but I'll likely be doing that in due time.)
>
> Also, get familiar with the btool program, and make sure that all
> the data that you want to eventually show up in the sync is shown
> when you do "btool -d Tasks"
>
> Once you've implemented the builder code, make sure the following
> btool commands download and upload the Tasks database with no
> errors and no data corruption. You wil need to build Barry with
> Boost support for this to work.
>
> btool -d Tasks -f tasks.dat
> btool -s Tasks -f tasks.dat
>
> This will save all the tasks records to tasks.dat, then erase
> the Tasks database on your Blackberry and upload that data, using
> your new builder code.
>
> This is where a barrybackup of the Tasks database will come in
> handy. Barrybackup can handle this, since it does no parsing or
> building of data.. it only stores the raw records. But for
> syncing,
> you will need parse and build support.
>
> Once this is done, send me the patch.
>
> 2) The vformat for todo items.
>
> If you look in opensync-plugin/src/vevent.{h,cc}, you'll see code
> for converting src/r_calendar.h records to RFC 2445 iCalendar
> format,
> and back.
>
> Something like this will be needed for todo items. The first job
> is to find out what format opensync needs for this, and then
> secondly to implement it. I don't have any great tips here. :-)
>
> 3) The sync.
>
> Once you have a todo format converter, just plug it into the
> code in opensync-plugin/src/barry_sync.cc. Step 2 and 3 might
> happen at the same time, in reality. :-)
>
> You'll notice that barry_sync uses function pointers to various
> format classes to do the actual work of conversion of the data.
> It can get a little hairy, so ask questions if you need help.
>
> Hope this helps, and thank you for your interest. Be sure to ask
> questions
> on the mailing list when you have them. And whenever you have patch that
> implements something useful, please send it right away, whether it is a
> small correction or large piece. It's better to send many small patches
> than one large one.
>
> - Chris
>
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