On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 12:19 +0200, Patrick Ohly wrote: > On Sa, 2011-07-23 at 10:13 +0200, Robert Schetterer wrote: > > Hi, is there a chance to use syncevolution > > as a bridge between a syncml server and a caldav/carddav server and vice > > versa > > i.e horde or funambol server syncml and DAViCal etc > > In theory, yes. In practice it hasn't been tried and there are likely to > be few obstacles which may require some coding to resolve. Are you > looking at this as a user or a programmer? > > A setup as client of a SyncML server could use the CalDAV/CardDAV > backends for its sources. Problem: > 1. Only one set of credentials can be stored in the sync config. > SyncML and CalDAV/CardDAV server must share the same > username/password for this to work. > 2. The CalDAV/CardDAV backends might not read these credentials > correctly. Currently they expect them in > "target-config@<context>" and I don't know whether the code > would pick them up from "funambol@default". > 3. The "database" property of the CalDAV/CardDAV sources must be > set to the full URL of the collection. There's no support in > SyncEvolution for reporting valid URLs. > > Points 1 and 2 might be solved by introducing a new feature: if the > current config name is "foo@bar", then the CalDAV/CardDAV sources could > retrieve their sync properties (syncURL, credentials) from > "target-config@bar" instead. Then credentials can be different for > SyncML and CalDAV/CardDAV.
I solved this (https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=23764) in the upcoming 1.3 release by checking database/databaseUser/databasePassword in the CalDAV/CardDAV backends. Robert, if you want, then I can make binaries available. See also my email to Jane ("Need to sync twice when using Ubuntu development release"). -- Best Regards, Patrick Ohly The content of this message is my personal opinion only and although I am an employee of Intel, the statements I make here in no way represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak on behalf of Intel on this matter. _______________________________________________ SyncEvolution mailing list SyncEvolution@syncevolution.org http://lists.syncevolution.org/listinfo/syncevolution
