Re: [Evolution-hackers] EDS architecture

[Patrick Ohly <Patrick Ohly gmx de>]

On Sat, 2008-09-20 at 21:34 +0000, Tomasz Melcer wrote:
> I am interested in using EDS in my own projects. I looked for any docs
> that would be useful to learn EDS architecture, but only found API
> reference, which is not so helpful. I'd like to build a big picture of
> how EDS works. Can anybody point me to proper document?

I'm not aware of any.

> I also have two more specific questions. Firstly, is there any kind of
> software that can be used to synchronize data from EDS using opensync
> framework, without actually using Evolution?

OpenSync should have support for synchronizing EDS. The last time I look
at it (three years ago) it wasn't particular stable, so I wrote a
stand-alone SyncML client for Evolution/EDS (SyncEvolution). Depending
on what you want to do one or the other might be more suitable.

> Secondly, I'd like to add to EDS content my own fields. Looking at the
> API reference I see functions to get list of allowed fields (like
> e_book_get_supported_fields), but I guess the server has to implement
> them to be working properly?

vCard and iCalendar are stored verbatim when using the normal, file
based EDS backend. You can therefore store arbitrary extensions.

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