Re: [mylyn-integrators] Handling synchronization in a connector

[Maarten Meijer <mm105@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Tom,

I think your progressing nicely I think. It gets a bit harder once  
your going to do attachments as these are not well documented.
Please feel free to look at the code for the (very) generic SQL  
connector as well.

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Mylyn/Generic_SQL_Connector

code at:

svn://bugs.industrial-tsi.com/mylyn_gsc

Maarten


Op 30 apr 2008, om 01:21 heeft Dennis Rietmann het volgende geschreven:

> Tom Bryan (tombry) wrote:
> > Tom Bryan (tombry) wrote on Tuesday, April 29, 2008 2:36 PM:
> >
> >
> > > The wiki says: "If your first basic plugin works, you should handle
> > > synchronization. Please note that the method for synchronization is
> > > called updateOfflineState (AbstractRepositoryConnector) instead of
> > > just synchronize()."
> > >
> > > I'm not sure whether that's a 3.0 change.  I see no  
> > > updateOfflineState
> > > method in 2.3.
> > >
> > > Any hints for those of us still integrating with the 2.3?
> >
> > For this part of my question, it appears that in Mylyn 2.3 uses the
> > RepositorySynchronizationManager 
> > .synchronize(AbstractRepositoryConnector
> > ,Set<AbstractTask>) method to handle the synchronization logic.   
> > So, it
> > looks like we get synchronization for free once we implement methods,
> > such as updateTaskFromRepository, in our
> > RepositorySychronizationManager.  But that's not the whole answer  
> > since,
> > if TaskDataHandler.canGetMultiTaskData() returns true, a multi-sync  
> > is
> > triggered.  I assume that this really requires some other things to  
> > be
> > implemented in the RepositoryConnector or the TaskDataHandler for my
> > connector, but I'm still tracing through some of this code at the
> > moment.
> I didn't implement such a method "updateOfflineState" in my 2.3  
> compliant connector. Also if the default sync behavior is fine I  
> don't think you need to do anything with  
> RepositorySychronizationManager (at least I didn't). According to  
> the api contract you don't need to implement  
> updateTaskFromRepository if you use task data - but you should  
> override updateTaskFromTaskData in the connector in any case. If you  
> would like you can have a look at my rather small (compared to  
> bugzilla/trac) but (almost*) fully functional 2.3 connector at https://svn.origo.ethz.ch/origo/ide/trunk/MylynIntegration/
>
> regards,
> Dennis
>
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