Hello! Where do I find more on these scripts? This could be very
interesting for me.

Regards,
Emile
On Apr 26, 2014 12:30 PM, "Lukas Zeller" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Patrick,
>
> On 25.04.2014, at 21:47, Patrick Ohly <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > [...]
> >
> > The bigger problem will be on the Evolution side. I don't see how I can
> > teach libsynthesis that a IMPP entry whose protocol (encoded as part of
> > the value!) is xmpp maps to X-JABBER.
>
> I see no direct way either.
>
> > Should I keep the traditional JABBER_HANDLE array and move entries back
> > and forth between it and the IMPP array? This could be done with
> > incoming/outgoing resp. afterread/beforewrite scripts.
>
> I guess that's the way to go. In particular, I added the incoming/outgoing
> scripts on the datatypes (looong time ago :-) for very similar problems,
> after realizing that the formerly pure declarative way to describe
> vCard/Calendar types was getting more and more complex and still not
> catching all cases at hand.
>
> In the libsynthesis based iOS clients, incoming/outgoing scripts are used
> a lot for exactly this type of normalizing data for the internal
> representation. No surprise that the scripting engine got regex support
> then...
>
> The afterread/beforewrite script could do such a conversion as well,
> however for normalizing data these are executed too late on the server side
> for normalized data to be used in slow sync matching, so it'll be more
> complicated to correctly match and merge records.
>
> So I'd think doing this in incoming/outgoing scripts would be better. As
> you said, JABBER_HANDLE would need to be kept as a temporary storage area
> for the parser to put X-JABBER values into, but the IMPP array would be the
> actual internal representation for the data.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Lukas
>
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