Sorry for reviving an old thread. First, just want you to know that I went the regexp way, note-content is separated from metadata and everything is stored separately. No storing of the whole note in the database.
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:25 AM, Sandy Armstrong < [email protected]> wrote: > > I'm not sure what you mean here about add-ins metatags. Can you > explain more? Add-ins can't add new top-level tags to a Tomboy .note > file, but they can add new tags within the <note-content> element. > I didn't know about that. Well that's good to know. > > There is no full note encryption support in any client. I think it's > a waste of time to design for something that doesn't yet exist. > Agreed. To my defense, I thought something did exist in that area, that's why I was planning for it and asking out loud on the list. > > When using web sync (which I really think will be the primary method > people use), you will have to parse note XML into JSON requests, and > JSON requests into note XML. Tomboy has to do it and it's not fun, > and is an obvious place where bugs may show up. If you assume that > most people will use web sync and not manual transfer of .note files, > then optimizing for that path makes sense to me. > > Of course, my assumption could be wrong. > Oh I don't think so, web sync will be the way! When you start getting used to using the Internet everywhere, there is no going back ;) > > 2- Forget about xml parsing just regexp out the note-content portion then > > parse the rest of the note. Or just use an xml lib that allows to extract > > part of the raw xml structure (or find the way to do it in Sax). > > We use proper XML parsing to get to <note-content>, then we use > regular expressions (see the websync add-in) to remove the title from > there, because as I mentioned in my other email, the title is not part > of note-content in the JSON object. > > We did all of this work of breaking the note up into a nice JSON > object so the only XML was pure content, in the hope that it would > make everything easier for new clients. It definitely makes things > easier on the web, and I hoped it would also make things easier for > Tomdroid. > Sounds like the right way to do it. Benoît and I will be looking to merge his web-sync branch into main soonish. So you'll be hearing about me if I think you gave us too much work on the client side. ;) Thanks Sandy for your help. -- Olivier Bilodeau <[email protected]>
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