[Gpe-list] Progress on gpesyncd -- but problems with libeventdb

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Thu, 23 Nov 2006 14:59:25 +0000,
Graham Cobb wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 23 November 2006 11:59, Neal H. Walfield wrote:
> > > 2) There is no event DB API to return all the event sources in the
> > > database.
> >
> > Use event_calendar_list_events to get all the events in a calendar.
> > To get all of the calendars, use event_db_list_event_calendars.
>
> Does the event DB model guarantee that every event appears in exactly one 
> calendar?  I realise that the current implementation only puts an event in 
> one calendar but should I rely on that?  

That's the current API, yes.

> Intuitively I assumed that calendars were just collections of events and that 
> there was no reason why an event might not be in more than one calendar 
> (although that is not the way the code works today).  For example, I could 
> imagine wanting a calendar for my business events and another for my personal 
> events and also a calendar for the events I choose to share with my group of 
> friends (which would contain some events from each of the other two 
> calendars).

This is what categories are for.

> As I already have code to remove duplicates (to work with 
> event_db_list_for_period) I may as well leave it in place but still switch to 
> using event_calendar_list_events .  That will make it easier to allow people 
> to synchronise specific calendars one day.

I think using event_db_list_for_period is wrong.

Neal