[Opensync-users] Detection during conflict determination

[Graham C. <gr...@co...>]

Before I submit a bug ticket I thought I would check with the list to see if 
there was anything I missed.

It looks like format detection doesn't happen during conflict checking -- and 
it should.  

For example, if I sync between kdepim and file I can get a directory with file 
versions of my contacts, events and notes.  Great.  However, if I force a 
slow sync (without changing anything in the KDE side or in the files) every 
one of those files is marked as a conflict.

The problem is that the comparison check (to see if the entries conflict) is 
done with the XML datatype but that the file data cannot be converted to XML.  
Of course, when actually performing a change the file data is converted to 
XML perfectly well, but that requires using a detector.  And the detector is 
not used during the comparison check.

Is there any reason this shouldn't be regarded as a bug?  Is there some reason 
it is particularly hard to do?

Graham