Storing complex data as folder annotations

[Alain Abbas]

hi Gunnar
well but for the folders where the user doesn t have write rights (this 
is my case with zpush ) ? and how to hide it for the user
(the user always make bad things :-)

Alain

Gunnar Wrobel a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> as a follow up on the recent IMAP folder annotations discussions in 
> kolab-devel@ I'd like to propose extending the format so that we avoid 
> misusing the IMAP METADATA RFC. I did not invest much time into this 
> proposal and I see it as a rough idea for starting the discussions.
>
> I'd like to add a new Kolab format definition named "metadata". This 
> would be the xml format:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <metadata version="1.0">
>   <!-- Common fields -->
>   <uid>(string, no default)</uid>
>   <creation-date>(datetime, no default)</creation-date>
>   <last-modification-date>(datetime, no default)</last-modification-date>
>   <product-id>(string, default empty)</product-id>
>
>   <!-- Metadata specific fields -->
>   {<element>
>     <name>(string)</name>
>     <value>(complex)</value>
>     <client>(string, default empty)</client>
>   </element>}
> </metadata>
>
> The "<value>" node could contain arbitrary complex XML. Clients would 
> be free to store their specific data in this node. Any new value 
> should however be documented in the Kolab wiki. If several clients 
> need to store/access the same configuration value they are free to do 
> so and they may ignore the "client" node (it must not be rewritten 
> however). Any configurations of general use might be included into the 
> Kolab format at some point and get "official" this way.
>
> On IMAP servers that do not support the METADATA extension the 
> "metadata" object can be used to store ALL annotations on a folder.
>
> The mail with the "metadata" XML attachment always has the ID "METADATA".
>
> Cheers,
>
> Gunnar
>
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