[Evolution-hackers] Communication with e-d-s

[Dick Kniep <dick kniep nl>]

Hi list,

This is my first post to this list, and I am definitely no wizard in Bonobo or 
evolution. On the other hand I have done a fair amount of searching on the 
Internet, so I hope you have an answer to this fairly basic question I have.

We have developed a big application in Python, Postgresql, OpenOffice, 
taskjuggler and other goodies. Now we want to connect to an agenda, and I 
have chosen evolution because it connects well to all the real world servers 
including ms-exchange which is being used by the vast majority of our 
customers.

What we want is:

1. Read the iCal data from evolution, connecting a certain appointment in 
evolution to a DB item based on the UID number in the iCal. This should be 
possible under all circumstances (user uses imap, webcal or any other way of 
storing the calendar data).

2. When a user pushes a certain button in our application evolution should 
fire up, and the user should be able to enter the appointment (so only the 
appointment screen should start), next our application should receive the UID 
of the newly created appointment, so that the appointment-id can be stored in 
the database.

3. It is necessary that with the appointment also resources like a room, a 
beamer or anything else, are committed, and the user must be able to look at 
the free/busy information of these resources.

Now I think it is best to use bonobo to connect to the e-d-s. But because I 
have no experience in doing this, and do not program in C, (only Python), I 
would be very happy if someone could give me an example on how to do this. 
The only documentation I found gives .h files for use in C, and although they 
may be perfectly clear for experienced C programmers, for me they are 
hullabaloo. 

I promise that if I get this stuff going, I will write a how-to for the Python 
folks.

Cheers,

D.Kniep