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diff --git a/src/dbus/server/pim/README b/src/dbus/server/pim/README index 97d53a39..e351e0a8 100644 --- a/src/dbus/server/pim/README +++ b/src/dbus/server/pim/README @@ -247,6 +247,29 @@ Not supported via the API at the moment: - selecting a specific phone address book - selecting which vCard properties get cached +Syncing +======= + +SetSync() in SyncEvolution will return a dict with all of the +following entries set: + "modified": boolean - data was modified + "added" : integer - number of new contacts + "updated" : integer - number of updated contacts + "removed" : integer - number of deleted contacts + +In other words, the caller can reliably detect when nothing changed, +but when contacts were modified or added, it needs to read them to +determine which kind of properties were modified or added. + +The SyncProgress is triggered by SyncEvolution with three different +keys (in this order, with "modified" occuring zero or more times): + "started" "modified"* "done" + +"started" and "done" send an empty data dictionary. "modified" sends +the same dictionary as the one returned by SyncPeer(), if contact data +was modified. So by definition, "modified" will be True in the +dictionary, but is included anyway for the sake of consistency. + Contact Data ============ |