Re: What's objtype "data" stand for?

Daniel,

I'm kind of confused by word "object type" and "object format".

My understanding for now is

object type	object format	plugin
data	file	N/A
contact	vcard30, vcard21	format-plugins/vformat
event	vevent20	format-plugins/vformat
note	vjournal	format-plugins/vformat
todo	vtodo20	format-plugins/vformat
email(*)		format-plugins/email (*)
image(*)		format-plugins/image (*)
bookmark(*)		format-plugins/bookmark (*)
account(*)		format-plugins/account (*)

(*) means not available

Thanks,
Halton.
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 10:08 +0200, Daniel Gollub wrote:

On Tuesday 29 April 2008 09:57:18 Halton Huo wrote:
> So currently libopensync support five obj types:
>
> * data: a wildcard
> * event:
> * contact:
> * note:
> * todo:
>
> Is all objtypes a static list? I mean any possible to add more objtypes
> like file, image, email, and so on in the future. (file is wildcard for
> image and email) This could affect the GUI implement.

Yeah, that is possible and intended. Just write a new format plugin which 
registers a objformat with a new object type. We might should specify future 
objtypes, to avoid different names of object type - bad example: picture, 
image, photo, ...

PS: there is already the object format "file" with the object type "data" ;)
So from your list only object type "email" and "image" is missing...

Also cool would be:
- "bookmark"
- "account" - like keys/passwords/account (e.g. from KWallet, gnome-key-ring)

Do you mean use this format plugin,  plugins like google-calendar to save/load password safely?

...
- "email"
- "image"

But i guess you're asking to know if it's worth to handle the number of 
available object types dynamic, not static/hardcoded - right? If so you  
might still need to map those objtype strings to something human-readable 
inside your UI. Like: "contact" -> "Contacts", "event" -> "Appointments", ...

best regards,
Daniel

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