Re: [mylyn-integrators] Problems with implementing offline support

[Dennis Rietmann <dennis.rietmann@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Rob,

Thanks for clarifying this, I added a corresponding note to the 
integrators wiki (as it was quite confusing for me).

regards,
Dennis

Robert Elves wrote:
> Hi Dennis,
>
> This is a bug since synchronization shouldn't take place when the 
> repository is disconnected:
>
> 202210: exclude disconnected repositories from user-triggered 
> synchronization
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=202210
>
> The framework should guard against this condition for you so your 
> handler should just work as usual, throwing a CoreException.
>
> -Rob
>
> Dennis Rietmann wrote:
> > After digging through the code a bit I think it is the intended 
> > behavior that getTaskData is called even though the repository is in 
> > offline mode.
> > So my next question is: What IS the correct behavior of the connector 
> > in such a case? Should it simply throw a CoreException?
> >
> > regards,
> > Dennis
> >
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject:     Problems with implementing offline support
> > Date:     Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:17:59 +0100
> > From:     Dennis Rietmann <dennis.rietmann@xxxxxxxxx>
> > To:     Mylyn Integrators list <mylyn-integrators@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> >
> >
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I have a problem with implementing offline editing in my connector. 
> > If I mark the repository as "disconnected" and then open a task from 
> > the task list the background synchronization will be launched and 
> > getTaskData gets called on my TaskDataHandler (via the  
> > RepositorySynchronizationManager->SynchronizeTaskJob.synchronizeTask). 
> > getTaskData will try to get the task from the repository which of 
> > course fails when working offline.
> > I had a look at the Trac connector's TaskDataHandler and it seems to 
> > do the same, there is no special check whether the repository is in 
> > disconnected mode or not. I think I missed something, because 
> > getTaskData shouldn't be called at all by the framework,  but I 
> > couldn't figure out what. Does anyone have a suggestion? I already 
> > read the section in the Integrators wiki, this seems to be fine.
> >
> > thanks for any help,
> > Dennis
> >
> >
> >
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