[platform-vcm-dev] Sync View Implementation

["Balaji Krishnamachari-samp" <balajik@xxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

Problem with implementation of Sync View:

I am able to get the sync view with all the functionality working for files
in the workspace.

A query to the repository gives me all the files that are in the repository
but not in the workspace. I created remoteSyncElement() with left node
resource = null and right node being the name of the file that need to be
extracted.

A call to getResource().getParents in makeParents method() in
SyncCompareInput class throws a null pointer exception ( This is correct
since getResource() returns null) I can't override this method or the
methods that call this method. prepareInput of SyncCompareInput()
calls doServerDelta() method ( package level ) which in-turn calls
makeParents method (package level). I have to call prepareInput from my
code since the diffRoot in SyncCompareInput is private.

If this is the case, then makeParents() of SyncCompareInput class throws a
null pointer exception when it tries to get the parent from the resource.

I was not able to decipher the entire working of cvs code and hence want to
know how to get away from this problem. (Does CVS create a dummy IResource
objects for resources in CVS but not in workspace.... I can understand that
the Sync framework is internal but how to get the sync elements if the
resource need to be extracted into workspace from repository


Thanks
Balaji