[Kde-pim] Integrating LDAP into contact lookup in a common way

[Szombathelyi Gy|rgy]

Hello, In KPIM, only PIM-related classes are present (e.g. the mentioned ldapclient uses the KAddressBook config file, also the job it does tied directly to addressbook functionality). But generic classes should go to KLDAP. I didn't investigate Akonadi (partly that made me not doing much work on LDAP for a while), but I guess it can (and should) use directly KLDAP. Br,György

Shaheedur Reza Haque <srhaque at theiet.org> írta:
>Hi György,
>
>So, to be clear, it seems that focussing on the KPIM layer as the "main" API 
>(at least for other internal users) is the way to go?
>
>> Hello, KLDAP is low-level LDAP implementation lib, the ldapclient.h uses
>> it indirectly (through kio_ldap). I think eliminating the ldap ioslave
>> would be sane, and also not too hard. Just I didn't have the time to
>> do it... Br,György
>> 
>> Shaheed Haque <srhaque at theiet.org> írta:
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>As discussed briefly on the mailing list on Saturday, I think it would
>>>be useful to integrate LDAP lookup with non-LDAP lookup in KMail's
>>>"Select Recipient" dialog. My original proposal was based on the idea
>>>I could simply collapse the "Search for Addresses in Directory" into
>>>the "Select Recipient" dialog by combining the search capabilities of
>>>the latter into the former, at the UI level.
>>>
>>>However, in poking around the Akonadi-based code in trunk, I see that
>>>we have the following backend code:
>>>
>>>        - One LDAP implementation in kdepimlibs/kldap/ldapsearch.h, in
>>>namespace KLDAP. This is the version that is referred to from the KDE
>>>4.x docs for kdepimlibs, though the bulk of the content is missing.
>>>
>>>        - Another LDAP implementation in
>>>kdepim/libkdepim/ldapclient.h, in namespace KPIM. This is referred to
>>>from the docs for kdepim/libkdepim, though the file contains comments
>>>saying "this is for internal use only".
>>>
>>>        - An LDAP Akonadi resource in playground/pim/ldap. From a
>>>quick test, this seems to work nicely, and depends on the KPIM
>>>version.
>>>
>>>And on the UI side we have:
>>>
>>>        - An AddresseeLineEdit in kdepim/libkdepim which does support
>>>LDAP, based on KPIM.
>>>
>>>        - An AddressLineEdit in kdepimlibs/kabc which does not support
>>>LDAP directly.
>>>
>>>        - An LDAP search in kdepim/libkdepim/ldapsearchdialog.cpp,
>>>based on KLDAP.
>>>
>>>        - Another LDAP search in
>>>kdepim/libkdepim//kaddressbook/xxport/ldap/ldapsearchdialog.cpp, based
>>>on KPIM.
>>>
>>>Needless to say, I could use some input on what's actually wanted
>>>here! The first question I have is which is the preferred backend
>>>implementation going forward, the one in namespace KPIM, or KLDAP?
>>>
>>>The next questions should be which is the preferred lineedit, and
>>>which is the preferred search dialog. However, I am beginning to
>>>wonder if, given the Akonadi resource, we should not just use this for
>>>all the UI stuff? If we did:
>>>
>>>        - There seems to be a some missing steps in how "Edit
>>>Completion Order" is handled for lineedits.
>>>
>>>         - I assume the "Search for Addresses in Directory" becomes
>>>superflous becuase the base "Select Recipient" dialog could just be
>>>enhanced as I originally planned from a UI point of view, but now, the
>>>LDAP resource just looks like another address book.
>>>
>>>Your thoughts and guidance would be appreciated because there is a lot
>>>of work here to unify this lot, and I'm not going to get far without
>>>some idea what the overall plan needs to be.
>>>
>>>Thanks, Shaheed
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