[Owncloud] App Data Migration

Bartek Przybylski bart.p.pl at gmail.com
Sat Mar 3 20:37:25 UTC 2012


Hi Tom!
Could you describe this process in more details ? then we could look
for enhancements ;)

bartek

2012/3/3 Tom Needham <tom at owncloud.com>:
> Hi All,
>
> So I'm currently doing some work on a backend for app data migration.
> Basically apps can register as migration providers (much like they do with
> search) and provide and import and export function.
>
> Originally I was planning to use XML as the overall output format but we
> just had a chat in IRC and possibly JSON would be easier? Apps could just
> provide an array structure on export and be given the same one on import.
> The backend will do all the hard work of mashing all the arrays together,
> and adding in various other data (app version numbers, owncloud version
> number..) and then just run json_encode() and export to a .json file.
>
> What does everyone thing? Thought I'd get your feedback before going ahead
> with it.
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
>
> Tom Needham
> tom at owncloud.com
>
>
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