Re: [Opensync-users] Detection during conflict determination

[Graham C. <g+o...@co...>]

Armin,

Thanks for your reply.

On Monday 05 June 2006 01:16, Armin Bauer wrote:
> The problem with fixing this bug is:
> Lets assume that we have telephone which can store notes and contacts.
> We are synchronizing this telephone with a directory which contains a
> single vcard. But opensync has a problem now: how should this file be
> treated?  Should it be synchronized as a contact or as a note? 

Isn't this a different issue?   I understand that this process can cause 
problems if a file can be converted into two different types of entries but 
this conversion does happen when handling changes today.  I have created 
calendar and contacts entries as files and had them converted correctly, with 
no problems.

*My* problem is that this process does NOT occur when doing comparisons -- it 
only occurs when handling changes.  I think that whatever the process is for 
implementing changes, the SAME process needs to happen when doing 
comparisons.  Otherwise we see incorrect conflicts.

In the tests I have run (between file and kdepim formats), the problem is that 
the file data is not converted AT ALL during slow-sync comparison (it is not 
being converted to the wrong XML vformat datatype -- it is just not being 
converted at all).

Graham