Re: [Evolution-hackers] online/offline in e-d-s

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 02:30 +0100, Rodrigo Moya wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-11-09 at 06:28 +0800, Not Zed wrote:
> > 
> > > IIRC, we talked the other day about having a new notification from the
> > > backends to the clients (notify_needs_authentication, or notify_error
> > > with a specific error code that marks the NEEDS_AUTHENTICATION part),
> > > and so have the client re-call the _open method. How does that sound?
> > > any other idea you have came to?
> > Isn't that what it does already?  Its a pity it can't ask for a password based on key.
> > 
> not the calendar backends, they get the username/password in the _open
> call. And the password is obtained on the client part :(
Hmm, but don't you know you need it from a failed open?

> > The current scheme assumes a single password and that you don't need
> > more to ask for related resources.
> > 
> > But then again, the current api's have lots of problems, i'm surprised
> > you guys have ever made it work.
> > 
> well, the problem here is there is no way for the backend to ask for
> authentication. But that's not difficult to fix.
>
> Any other thing in the API you find broken?

The synchronously async stuff mainly.

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