Soylent - Progress Report - Week 6

[Sven Pfaller <sven pfaller googlemail com>]

Hi Gnome SoCers!

Here comes the new weekly report for libsoylent, as usual also at 
http://www.kalterregen.de/blog

Moving to the new flat took longer than expected. But I think the extra time was 
worth it. The whole flat and my room look pretty nice and comfortable now. Most 
things are organized, only for the party on friday there is some planing left to 
do ;) . Internet is still an issue after two weeks of having (almost) no 
internet-access. Currently we are using the neighbours WLAN until our ISP is 
done with installing the new connection.

The Southside festival was great too. Radiohead and Sigur Ros, yeah! Tegan and 
Sara were also amazing. Looking back I would say it was one of the best music 
festivals I’ve been to so far.

Nevertheless, being away for two weeks kept me slightly behind my schedule. 
Version 0.1 is ready but not released, because of organizational reasons. In the 
meantime I’m already working on v0.2.

Last week I finished the foundation of libsoylent. That basically means I 
thought in greater detail of the architecture (see below), designed the needed 
GObject classes and made stubs for most functions and methods. From now on there 
should be a release every week, and a solid foundation will help a lot.

libsoylent overview:
[http://www.kalterregen.de/blog/wp-content/uploads/manual/libsoylent.png]

The libsoylent architecture as shown in the diagram: SlBook is the addressbook 
where people (SlPerson) and groups (SlGroup) are stored. People and Groups are 
entities (i.e. objects with attributes that can be modified etc.). SlEntities 
are backed by SlEntityHandlers. For SlPerson there will be an EDS-handler and 
for SlGroup a file-handler. More handlers can easily be added (if needed).

The storage of attributes (SlAttribute) is managed by attribute-handlers 
(SlAttributeHandler). They are responsible to convert runtime-values to values 
that can be stored by the entity-handlers (e.g. a SlAddress C-struct to a 
VCard-string for EDS).

If you have any thoughts on the architecture I’d be glad to hear them. This week 
I will have more time and work on people, group and addressbook management. And 
of course on the first release :) .

See you next week
- Sven