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

[Szombathelyi Gy|rgy]

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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