Re: [Opensync-devel] google-calendar plugin working for calendar only

[Chris F. <cd...@fo...>]

Hold the phone... Google (or the plugin) thinks that modification is
addition in some cases, so there's some issues to be worked out yet.

- Chris



On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 03:03:09PM -0400, Chris Frey wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I've made some changes to the library, the google-calendar plugin, and
> the vformat plugin, which now supports calendar event syncing.
> 
> The most tricky part was that opensync uses ISO 8601 *without* separators
> and without timezone offsets, while Google uses ISO 8601 only *with*
> separators and with optional timezone offsets.
> 
> I could have done this conversion inside the google-calendar plugin alone,
> but this kind of timestamp manipulation seemed like useful code to share,
> so I updated the library and the vformat plugin to do conversions if
> necessary.
> 
> This means that if you feed opensync an XMLFormat document that happens
> to contain ISO 8601 timestamps with a timezone offset, opensync will
> automatically convert it to opensync timestamp format, and convert
> the timezone information into a UTC timestamp, since timezone support
> in vformat is not yet complete.  It also works in the other direction:
> an invalid vformat object with ISO 8601 timestamps + timezone offset
> will be converted to opensync timestamps in UTC.
> 
> If no timezone offset is found, then just the dashes and colons are removed,
> as before, but this time in both xml -> vformat and vformat -> xml
> directions, instead of just vformat -> xml as before.
> 
> Now that calendar syncing with google-calendar in the preliminary "working"
> state, I plan to continue testing it, and fix up the contact syncing side
> as well.
> 
> Please report any problems you find to the mailing list.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Chris
> 
> 
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