[Kolab-devel] horde AND kolab's private distribution lists

[Gunnar Wrobel]

Hi Mike,

Mike Gabriel <m.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> writes:

> hi gunnar,
>
> Quoting Mike Gabriel <m.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de>:
>
>> hi gunnar,
>>
>> Quoting Gunnar Wrobel <wrobel at pardus.de>:
>>
>>> Hi Mike,
>>>
>>> Mike Gabriel <m.gabriel at das-netzwerkteam.de> writes:
>>>
>>>> hi gunnar,
>>>>
>>>> i would like to reintroduce the discussion about implementation of
>>>> kolab's private distribution lists into horde. to start this from
>>>> scratch seems to me as a rather big thing. could you give a hint on
>>>> where to look (mysql dist lists already exist in horde?) to start with
>>>> (as a template).
>>>>
>>>> one of my customers repeatatively asks for private distribution lists,
>>>> so this might be a piece of work i might have to indulge in in the
>>>> near future...
>>>
>>> the dist-list format is defined within the Kolab format. It shouldn't
>>> be too hard to define a driver within Kolab/XML that handles the
>>> format correctly. What might be more difficult would be to find out
>>> how to map this into Horde. Without looking at the code I could
>>> imagine representing these list either as a Horde::Group, a
>>> Turba::vbook or Turba::favourites. But without looking at the code I'm
>>> currently unable to say which variant would be the correct one.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>>
>>> Gunnar
>>>
>>
>> i looked at the turba code. the IMSP driver looks like it implements
>> distribution lists in a similar way as kolab does.
>>
>> thus, the dist list has to go into the kolab driver(???).
>>
>> i will look into things more closely.
>> mike
>
> the night was long...
>
> i changed some lines in sources.php (kolab source) and by that i  
> activated the distribution list feature for kolab that is already  
> inherent in horde.
>
> i then found a restraint in your code (SORRY).

:D ... you'll find plenty of those if you work on the Horde::Kolab
module. I hope to be able to remove many of them once we move to Horde
4 but right now Horde is in a release phase and restructuring the
module is not possible. That does not affect this particular restraint
though.

> you presume  
> (getAppConsts) that each horde application can be bijectively mapped  
> to a single xml/mime type (kronolith <->  xml kolab event, nag <-> xml  
> kolab task, etc.)

I checked your solution now and we will have to modify it so that it
can be commited upstream.

Cheers,

Gunnar

>
> turba can - introducing distribution lists - now handle two xml/mime  
> types. this breaks the cleanliness of code a bit.
>
> the current status now is:
>
>    => i can add empty distribution lists with the correct kolab format in my
>       contact folders
>
> what i still need to do:
>
>    => add members to distribution lists
>
> for this, maybe you can help me:
>
> the Kolab_XML_distributionlist::_load($object) method receives an  
> array that contains a string for the Turba_Objects of __members in the  
> distribution list. is there an easy way in horde to turn a string like  
> this:
>
> "a:4:{i:0;s:32:"7a32bed28445883cbbebd881222d7a21";i:1;s:10:"GhdJd6tXel";i:2;s:32:"e65eb141dc8c46d3f110c88ec751b834";i:3;s:10:"Up4GMFZhYG"
>
> into the corresponding kolab objects? i know the long hashes are the  
> UIDs of my kolab contacts / Turba_Objects. is there a function that  
> cuts the string into its components? just trying to avoid to reinvent  
> the wheel...
>
> cheers,
> mike
>
>
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