[Calypso] calypso with davdroid: in the direction of principals

[Sebastian Bachmann]

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Hi,
it seems like to have this patch working you need a git repository
initalized at ~/.config/calypso/calendars (or at the location you keep
your folders). If you only have git repositories in the specific
calendar and addresses folders it will not work.

- -sebastan

On 11/10/2013 08:26 AM, chrysn wrote:
> hello calypso developers,
> 
> as to use a davdroid[1] client (android 4.0+, only supports 
> autoconfiguration) with calypso, i should have started
> implementing principals.
> 
> instead, i hacked my way around it til it fit.
> 
> the attached crude patch makes things work so-and-so for davdroid,
> and as a side effect also makes calypso usable with acal. (they
> have in common that they don't allow some call manual
> configuration, and others call infrastructure for supporting broken
> servers).
> 
> among other nasty things, this patch forces users to observe a 
> `/${USERNAME}/{calendar,addresses}{,-about}` folder structure,
> where the -about folders need to be present just so i can easily
> get a Collection object.
> 
> i like the flexible layout calypso provides, so what we should aim
> for as a more permanent solution is a way to attach a label to a
> folder whether it contains addresses or calendar items (for
> calypso, so far it's perfectly ok to contain both, but clients
> don't like that). then, in combination with the permissions system
> already in place, i think that there should be purely synthetic
> (one could say virtual) locations for urls like principal or the
> list of calendars accessible from that principal (which are what
> now are the -about urls). the latter might in theory be merged into
> the principal, but that caused troubles in practice (might have
> been an error on my side, i was pretty focused on just getting it
> to work). unless webdav specs dictate otherwise, i'd suggest
> addresses like /+${USERNAME}{,/addresses,/calendars} for principal
> and the lists of addresses and calendars, respectively.
> 
> (speaking of slashes: it seems to be calypso's stance that
> resources' urls don't end in slashes. caused troubles with
> davdroid[2], not sure what to think of it).
> 
> 
> best regards chrysn
> 
> 
> [1] http://davdroid.bitfire.at/ [2]
> https://github.com/rfc2822/davdroid/issues/64
> 
> 
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