Re: [Opensync-devel] Capabilities and ticket 1183.

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

On Monday 09 November 2009 07:19:37 pm Henrik /KaarPoSoft wrote:
> However, I have a question:
> 
> Assume we have a group with two members M1 and M2.
> Member M1 supports ObjFormat F1 with capabilities CAP1, and member M2 
> supports ObjFormat F2 with capabilities CAP2.
> 
> The function _osync_obj_engine_mapping_find will try to compare two 
> changes CHANGE1 and CHANGE2 from the two members.
> This is done by: _osync_obj_engine_clone_and_demerge_change(CAPS2, 
> CHANGE1) and _osync_obj_engine_clone_and_demerge_change(CAPS1, CHANGE2).
> 
> This means, that an ObjFormat F1, which supplies a (de)merger with 
> capabilties CAP1, needs to be able to demerge changes of ObjFormat F2, 
> which it does not know.

OSyncCapsConverter take care about converting the caps-format to something the 
demerge of F1 can handle ...

For example the vformat plugins provides a caps-format converter for vformat 
to xmlformat capabilities.

So if the caps are reported in caps-format vformat .. and the entry to compare 
is in xmlformat-contact, the caps get converted by this caps-format-converter 
...

> 
> Some guidance on how the is supposed to work would be most appreciated.
> 

Does this help?

Best Regards,
Daniel

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