Sharing Project

The sharing framework allows repository items to be transported in and out of Chandler in various serialization formats and across various transport mechanisms.

Framework Overview

The sharing framework shares an Item Collection by instantiating three objects: a Share, a Format, and a Conduit. The Share object is the coordinator, and contains the logic for determine what items need to be imported or exported. The Share delegates the serialization/deserialization to the Format object (of which there are currently two implementations: a CloudXML format and an iCalendar format). Moving the serialized representations in and out of Chandler is delegated to the Conduit object (of which there are currently three implementations: FileSystem, SimpleHTTP^? and WebDAV).

0.7 Goals (preliminary)

• Asynchronous syncing, including automatic syncing and user-initiated Completed
• Define an information model for interacting with shared data, and a new sharing format
• Logging of sharing activity
• Deal with multiple clients hitting the server simultaneously
• Conflict resolution UI management
• SharingFormatDiscussion
• ExternalInformationModel
• SharingFormatProposal

Documentation

• Sharing 0.7 Spec (in SVN)
• MorgenSagen20050429 is a page to discuss some assumptions I have; feedback from this has been added to the spec
• CalDAV Spec
• SharingProjectRepoView^? -- Notes about using repository view merging to handle sharing conflicts
• SharingProjectItemState -- Note about how to track read-only vs read-write items
• SharingProjectItemFiltering -- Notes about filtering attributes like alarms/status
• SharingFrameworkExtensibility

People

• MorgenSagen
• GrantBaillie
• HeikkiToivonen
• LisaDusseault

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-- MorgenSagen - 27 Nov 2006