Re: [coldsync-hackers] deleted-flag in PDB todo

[Pierre Phaneuf <pp at ludusdesign dot com>]

Andrew Arensburger wrote:

Oops, guess I should write something, eh?

> If you want to use a Dump conduit, you'll need to compare the 
> contents of the SQL database and the .pdb file. If your SQL database 
> stores the Palm record ID, then you can just iterate over all the SQL
> records, and if there's no matching record in the .pdb file, then
> delete the SQL record. Alternately, you can write a Sync conduit, but
> the logic for that is significantly harder than for Fetch or Dump
> conduits.

That'd be a good reason to have a "declined" return status for Sync 
conduits, so that others can carry on, including the generic conduit. 
Then, it would be really easy to have a simple Sync conduit that glances 
over things on the Palm, then does the usual (and more complicated) stuff...

-- 
Pierre Phaneuf
http://advogato.org/person/pphaneuf/


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