On Sun, 2015-07-19 at 23:10 +0100, Graham Cobb wrote:
> On 16/07/15 23:06, Graham Cobb wrote:
> > On 13/07/15 11:53, Patrick Ohly wrote:
> >> I also wonder whether the server can be told to avoid incremental
> >> updates in the first place.
> > 
> > I will look into whether I can find out under what circumstances the
> > Change is being sent and whether I can avoid it.  It only occurs with
> > very a small number of events (currently 2 out of over 2000 in my
> > calendar) but I am not sure if it is to do with the event or the type of
> > change, etc.
> 
> It seems that there is no way to ask for the full event to be provided
> by the server.  It always sends the <Change> message (unless you are
> doing a slow sync and reading everything).  In most cases, that is not a
> problem: the documentation says that the object will be provided pretty
> much in full (fields not specified in the <Change> should be deleted),
> EXCEPT for a short list of special cases (for example, for emails,
> sending a change to the "Read" flag does not mean everything else should
> be deleted).  Although the <Attendee> is NOT listed in the documentation
> as one of those special cases, it seems it really is: if the only change
> to the event is the attendee list, the whole event is NOT resent -- the
> client is supposed to just note the update to the attendee and not
> change anything else!

Thanks for digging into this. You are aware that you are turning into
the activesyncd maintainer? ;-}

> So, my current thought is to add (yet another) hack: if a calendar event
> <Change> is received that does not include a <StartTime> then the whole
> update is ignored.  This means that (in this case) the attendee change
> is ignored, but that is better than corrupting the whole event and
> losing all the information about it.

I agree, this looks like the least evil option.

Sorry for the late response; I was on vacation.

-- 
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.



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