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

[Henrik /K. <he...@ka...>]

Daniel Gollub wrote:
> 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?
>
>   
Yes! Thank you very much for the explanation.
I will see what I can do...
/Henrik