[Kde-pim] [GSOC] AkonadiClient Commands

[Bhaskar Kandiyal]

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On 05/06/2014 03:15 PM, Jonathan Marten wrote:
> Daniel Vrátil <dvratil at redhat.com> writes:
>> On Sunday 04 of May 2014 23:43:15 Bhaskar Kandiyal wrote:
>> 
>> couple comments from me:
> 
>> * How do you differentiate between item and collection? If I do
>> "akonadiclient delete 15", is that a Collection, or an Item?
>> Collections and Item IDs can overlap. Same for "move" i suppose.
> 
> A better solution, by analogy with C++ number syntax, would be to
> add a suffix - for example, "1334i" (case insensitive of course)
> would mean an item while "1334c" would mean a collection. A number
> without a suffix would mean whatever was appropriate if only an
> item or collection would be valid (e.g. the argument for 'list' is
> always a collection), otherwise it could be rejected as ambiguous.
> Named collections have to start at the root*, so there can be no
> ambiguity between either of those and a collection named "1334c"
> (which would have to be entered as "/1334c".
> 
> [*] Unless we implement a "command loop" when invoked without 
> arguments, such as in xauth, lpc or the Perl CPAN shell.  With
> this persistence there can be the concept of a "current collection"
> and a cd command to move around.  Then a plain number could
> potentially have three interpretations, and there would have to be
> a notation to distinguish between 'a subcollection of the current
> collection named "1334"' and 'the collection with ID 1334'.
> 

Adding a suffix to differentiate between collections and items is a
great idea. I'll try to implement it :)

Cheers,
Bhaskar Kandiyal
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