Re: [Opensync-devel] Comments needed: mozilla-sync needs a redesign

[Daniel G. <go...@b1...>]

On Friday 23 October 2009 08:25:29 pm Henrik /KaarPoSoft wrote:
> 2) Convince OpenSync to talk to this socket, instead of OpenSync's 
> normal sub-thread/sub-process
> 
> 
> I still have only limited knowledge of OpenSync, so I don't know:
> - how to convince OpenSync to talk to the Thunderbird socket, instead of 
> to an OpenSync plugin.
> - which messages in which format to send or receive
> - how to do this in Thunderbird
> 

OpenSync plugins can be written as a seperated process, which is already 
running. E.g. inside Mozilla. And communicate via FIFO

The plugin start-type is called OSYNC_START_TYPE_EXTERNAL - but AFAIK you 
still need to use the OpenSync API, for proper communcation via this socket.

The only existing plugin-code running as external i could found is inside some 
testcases:

tests/engine-tests/check_engine.c


-----8<-------
debug->plugin = osync_plugin_new(&error);
osync_plugin_set_name(debug->plugin, "mock-sync-foo");
osync_plugin_set_longname(debug->plugin, "Mock Sync Plugin");
osync_plugin_set_description(debug->plugin, "This is a pseudo plugin");
osync_plugin_set_start_type(debug->plugin, OSYNC_START_TYPE_EXTERNAL);
osync_plugin_set_config_type(debug->plugin, OSYNC_PLUGIN_NO_CONFIGURATION);


debug->client1 = osync_client_new(&error);
char *pipe_path = g_strdup_printf("%s/configs/group/1/pluginpipe", testbed);
osync_client_run_external(debug->client1, pipe_path, debug->plugin, &error);
---->8--------


Maybe this helps some how ... if you're interested in give this a try - let me 
know. So we can build up a proof of concept up. We need something like that 
anyway as reference implementation.

Best Regards,
Daniel

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