Re: [Phpgroupware-developers] Synchronization support for phpGW - Draft

[Alex Borges]

Okay,

Im doing this thing so that people can make  documents to import stuff
into any phpgw application. Then i provide an api so that importers from
that format to xml can be applied, then an api to parse that xml and
import it into phpgroupware.

Right now, the only source i support is the vfs (it could be anything
later). So, this is designed for example, to have designated directory
in phpgw vfs and tell it to import all files in that dir in bulk, and
pass them through the converters in pipeline, then an interface is
provided to manage conflicts, errors, etc. And an interface is defined,
in the apps that will support this, to add records from an importer of
this kind.

Its not the same thing as sync at all, its a diferent application, but
in the lowest level, this needs the very same dirty/clean checking and
transaction atomicity as a syncML sync as described by the probiz
documents.

So, what im wondering is about the phpgw layers in the sync module's
design, and if it will provide services as an api to add/delete records
to all those apps in a php "way", meaning, they dont pass vcard/vcal all
the way to phpgwapi and assume the apps handle those specifications, but
actually call each application's add method or and add method prescribed
by the sync modules design (as in, to be synced, all apps have to have
registered the sync_add hook...etc.).

In any case, if you guys think there is an overlap in what im doing with
the proposal of the sync solution, i would very much like to get started
in the lowest level layer of it right away as i have to deliver this as
soon as possible.

Alex Borges
http://www.sogrp.com