[Aperture-devel] Replacing jpim with ical4j-vcard

[Antoni M. <ant...@gm...>]

Hello Aperturians,

Since we're in the process of mavenization, and cleaning up our
dependencies, Herko asked me if anything can be done with the vcard
subcrawler depending on jpim, a library, that proved the best of them
all when I evaluated it some time ago, but still it's dead and has
that annoying way of inventing new uris for each vcard on each crawl,
thus making incremental crawling impossible.

Luckily Ben Fortuna - the author of ical4j and mstor (we're using both
intensively) released his implementation of vcard. I took a look and
rewrote the VcardSubCrawler to use it. Before, I had to submit some
patches to Ben (see
https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=107024&atid=646397) but I'm
sure he'll answer quickly, incorporate those patches and release a
snapshot version we'll be able to depend on.

The only caveat that still remains is the treatment of date. Recent
VCARD specs allow for a broader range of date formats, than the
original ical spec, the ical4j currently uses. I had to modify one of
our test files (the one from KDE Kontact) to make the build work.
Apart from that everything seems to be allright.

All kinds of comments are welcome.

-- 
Antoni Myłka
ant...@gm...