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

["Mik Kersten" <mik@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow, nice progress Maarten!  I'll follow up more on the corresponding bug.

184532: [connector] Generic SQL connector
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=184532

Mik

> -----Original Message-----
> From: mylyn-integrators-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mylyn-integrators-
> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Maarten Meijer
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:23 AM
> To: Mylyn Integrators list
> Subject: Re: [mylyn-integrators] Handling synchronization in a
> connector
> 
> 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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