Re: [coldsync-hackers] Design logic of Sync conduits

[Christophe Beauregard <christophe dot beauregard at sympatico.ca>]

On Wednesday 03 March 2004 04:30, Janssen, B.J. wrote:

> I just wrote a Fetch/Dump Conduit combination using the Datebook Perl
> Module and would like to add something like this (sshkey identification)
> to my conduit. How can I do something like that?

Good question. I was thinking from the perspective of a sync conduit, where 
you'd create a one-record database with something like:

   my $ssh_key = ...
   my $dbh = dlp_CreateDB( $creator, $type, ... "MyKeyDB" );
   dlp_WriteRecord( $dbh, 0, $ssh_key );
   dlp_Close( $dbh );

and later you could retrieve the key via:

  my $dbh = dlp_OpenDB( "MyKeyDB", 0x80 );
  my $record = dlp_ReadRecordByIndex( $dbh, 0, 0, -1 );
  my $ssh_key = $record->{'data'};
  
To use Palm::PDB to write a raw database file with that record is a little 
tougher, since I believe you have to code up a minimalist helper class. 
Palm::PDB is more structured than DLP...

I don't have time right now to whip up an example of how that would work, 
but you could probably use Palm::Memo as a guideline.

> Can I get information 
> from another prc file while I'm fetching from the Datebook?

Sure. Coldsync passes a $HEADERS{PDA-Directory}, so all the databases are 
under "$HEADERS{PDA-Directory}/backup".

c.
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