Re: [Opensync-devel] Problem with conversions that use objtype data (like in file-sync)

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

On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 05:35:37PM -0400, Chris Frey wrote:
> This format is used by the vformat plugin, in order to register
> detector converters.  These detectors look inside plain data to
> determine if it contains valid vformat data, such as vevents, etc.

It looks like you (Luiz) are using the file sync plugin as a simplest
case test case.

I wonder if it is possible to disable all this detector / converter
stuff, so that plain data remains plain data forevermore. :-)

It seems that it could be a shocking development, if a person tries
to sync, and somehow a binary blob that he is syncing, and that he
assumes will never change (perhaps he sha1sums his file data),
suddenly changes simply because it had vformat data, and went through
the wash/rinse cycle of the xmlformat plugin.

Daniel: Is is possible for the user to disable converter detectors?
Is there any drawback to this that I'm not seeing?

Thanks!
- Chris