On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 12:23 am, Armin Bauer wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 14:14, Stewart Heitmann wrote:
> > On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 11:44 pm, Armin Bauer wrote:
> > > i will give you an example sync:
> > >
> > > two devices: A and B
> > >
> > > user adds this vcards to device A:
> > >
> > > NAME:blubb
> > > A-ONLY-FIELD:test
> > >
> > > and syncs with B. Now the archive will contain both fields (the
> > > converter has to map the A-ONLY-FIELD of course). the vcard in device B
> > > will look like this (since B discards the A-ONLY-FIELD):
> > >
> > > NAME:blubb
> > >
> > > now the user modifies the contact on device B to:
> > >
> > > NAME:blubb-new
> > >
> > > and syncs again. Now the syncengine sees the information from B but does
> > > a MERGE! with the archive before sending it to A. Therefore A will
> > > receive this vcard:
> > >
> > > NAME:blubb-new
> > > A-ONLY-FIELD:test
> > >
> > > and no information is lost.
> >
> > Very good, but how does the sync-engine know beforehand that
> > device A supports both NAME and A-ONLY-FIELD, while
> > device B supports NAME field only?
> > The devices must still tell the sync engine at startup which
> > fields they will handle.
>
> why? the engine just merges all information a device sends, if a field
> is not supported it will be missing and will therefore not be merged.
But then how does the sync engine determine when fields that have been deleted
from a device?
Say device A deleted the "A-ONLY-FIELD:test" vcard field, so we now have
device A:
NAME:blubb-new
device B:
NAME:blubb-new
archive:
NAME:blubb-new
A-ONLY-FIELD:test
How does the sync engine then know to delete "A-ONLY-FIELD:test" from the
archive?
It cant just be left there, otherwise it will re-appear in device A on the next
synchronisation.
--
Stewart Heitmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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