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

["Wes" <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I have attempted for a couple of days to access the svn for the generic
sql connector.  Is anyone else having this problem and is there somewhere
else that I may find the source?

Thanks
Wes


> 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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