[Kde-pim] scripting akonadi?

[Volker Krause]

On Wednesday 16 April 2008 18:46:45 Tijn Schuurmans wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 April 2008 00:10:06 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 02:38:02PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
> > > > On Mon, April 14, 2008 9:33 pm, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> > > >
> > > > for end users, this means that the only way for them to store email
> > > > into akonadi is to use mailody or kmail, until/unless somebody
> > > > integrates libakonadi-kde into Evolution, Thunderbird or any other
> > > > FOSS client,right? (this is not a critique, I just want to be sure
> > > > I got it right)
> > >
> > > Yes, that's correct.
> >
> > Yes/no. As Tobias already tried to explain Akonadi is no storage.
> > Akonadi is an interface (with a cache) between all kinds of PIM data
> > storages (e.g. IMAP servers, local mbox/ical/vcard files, groupware
> > servers, etc.). So the question whether one needs Mailody or KMail to
> > store something in Akonadi makes no sense. You can as well use
> > Thunderbird since AFAIK Thunderbird uses mbox as mail storage. So it
> > would be possible to access those mbox files through Akonadi with
> > Mailody/KMail.
> >
> > The point is that it is irrelevant how the data gets into the storage.
> > You don't need Akonadi and even less you need an Akonadi-client (like
> > KMail/Mailody) for this. The question you should ask is "How do I
> > access the storage via Akonadi?" And the answer to that question is:
> > You must use an Akonadi-client like KMail/Mailody. But you can still
> > access the stored data directly with any other client that is capable
> > of accessing data stored in this particular way (mbox, IMAP, Exchange,
> > groupware server).
> >
> > Just as Solid provides a common and easy to use interface to your
> > hardware, Akonadi provides a common and (hopefully) easy to use
> > interface to your PIM data storage without you, as a developer, having
> > to worry about what kind of PIM data storage you are actually talking
> > to.
>
> I've been following this thread with great interest. I too was (or still
> am) confused about what Akonadi is. I think I understand now but I want to
> get it straight (yeah me too :-P)
>
> Say I want to write a sync-application for synchronizing contact-data or
> calendars to a internet-syncserver (citadel, funambol, soocial.com <-- I
> work there). It only has to run in kde. The most sane way to access the
> contact and calendar data would be through akonadi. Did I get that right?
>
> This raises some other questions like, will it be possible to query akonadi
> for deleted contacts or events?

What you probably want is to write an Akonadi resource. Those are the 
connectors between Akonadi and the various backends. Akonadi resources have 
access to the changes happend locally, including deletions.

regards
Volker
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