Question regarding KDE PIM resource development

[Daniel Vrátil]

On Monday, 17 August 2020 07:27:46 CEST Shashwat Jolly wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have another question, adding to the above list:
> 
> The new resource has a root collection that is not virtual, and has a
> mimeType `Akonadi::Collection:mimeType()`.

That should be the same for majority of resources.

> The "Update Calendar" option shows up on right clicking the root
> collection in KOrganizer, which works well and updates the entire
> resource - calls retrieveCollections() and retrieveItems() for each
> collection.
> However, the "Update Address Book Folder" option on the same root
> collection of the resource is grayed out in KAddressBook. Why is this
> behaviour different in KAddressBook and KOrganizer for the same root
> collection? I want a similar behaviour for KAddressBook, where the
> user can update the entire resource by clicking "Update Address Book
> Folder". How could I do that?

This is now an issue on your side, this is how KAddresbook and KOrganizer 
respectively are implemented. This should be fixed in KAB to have the same 
behavior as KOrganizer [0]

/Dan

[0] https://phabricator.kde.org/T13512

> 
> Thanks,
> Shashwat Jolly
> IRC: sjolly on Freenode
> www.thejollyblog.tech
> 
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2020 at 11:07 PM Shashwat Jolly
> 
> <shashwat.jolly at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey everyone!
> > 
> > I have been developing a new resource for natively integrating EteSync
> > into KDE PIM. I was mostly focused on feature implementation till now,
> > but testing has revealed some shortcomings in the resource. As I am
> > quite new to PIM, Akonadi, and KDE in general, I had some questions,
> > listed below:
> > 
> > 1. Does KAddressBook let you add new address books to an existing account?
> > For me, both, my resource and the Google resource fail to create new
> > address books, and give me a "Duplicate Entry" error from the database
> > (Error log - see [0]). Not sure what's wrong.
> > 
> > 2. Adding todos to calendars seems possible in KOrganizer
> > When adding a new todo, it offers a list of all the calendars and task
> > lists available - it should ideally only show tasks lists, right?
> > Again, this is the same case for my resource and the existing Google
> > resource.
> > 
> > 3. If something in the itemAdded(), collectionAdded() (and similar
> > signals) fails, can we remove the event or collection from showing up?
> > Right now, if it fails, the item or collection stays visible there.
> > 
> > You can see the code for the new resource here:
> > https://invent.kde.org/sjolly/kdepim-runtime/-/tree/etesyncResource/resour
> > ces/etesync
> > 
> > [0] https://pastebin.com/0TeWueUm
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Shashwat Jolly
> > IRC: sjolly on Freenode
> > www.thejollyblog.tech


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