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

["Mik Kersten" <mik@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The RAD 7.5 beta is built on Eclipse 3.3 and as such there should be no
problems with Mylyn 3.0 there.  However, unfortunately I don't think that
the release date is announce.

About the ClearQuest connector, yup with 49 votes that's one of the top
voted Eclipse bugs (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/).  I was just at JAX
Europe, and both times that I've gone to that conference dozens of people
have reminded me about the ongoing relevance of ClearQuest.  After Mylyn 3.0
goes out I'll make a point of chatting with IBM folks in this area to see
what their thoughts are about creating or supporting a ClearQuest connector.


Mik 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Maarten Meijer [mailto:mm105@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:10 PM
> To: mik@xxxxxxxxxxx; Mylyn Integrators list
> Subject: Re: [mylyn-integrators] Handling synchronization in a
> connector
> 
> Hi Mik,
> 
> Mylyn 3.0 will support Eclipse 3.3 and 3.4 as in your other post.
> But the big thing will be to plug into stuff like RSA and the other
> paid toolsets.
> The #1 requested connector is ClearQuest.
> Do you know when these will move to 3.3 or 3.4?
> Thats what we need to support with the SQL connector.
> 
> Maarten
> 
> 
> Op 30 apr 2008, om 22:50 heeft Mik Kersten het volgende geschreven:
> 
> > 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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