Re: mapping VCard properties to LDAP fields?

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Hi Nicola,

Multisync used vcards internally for synchronization so the field
mapping was done in the ldap plugin. You can see the mapping table in
the ldap plugin src/vcard.c right in the beginning.

Hope this helps a little bit.

Armin

Nicola Fankhauser wrote:
> hello all
> 
> I am in the process of specifying a way to map cleanly as many VCard properties to LDAP
> fields as possible. this effort will be used to advance development of the LDAP
> connector [2] for Sync4j [1].
> 
> if I understand correctly, there exists no RFC or any other accepted specification to do
> this the "proper" way. but before we roll our own mapping, I wanted to ask you first.
> 
> I know that multisync did work wonderfully with my trusty old Palm IIIx and LDAP, and
> that you guys wrote a SyncML plugin for it as well. now I suppose that multisync
> internally has its own data-model for contacts, calendar items, and to-do-items and that
> each plugin has first to convert its own data to this internal format.
> 
> is there any documentation about multisync's mapping? or should I simply try to read the
> code?
> 
> any hints would be appreciated!
> 
> thanks & regards
> nicola fankhauser
> 
> [1]: http://sync4j.org/
> [2]: https://wiki.objectweb.org/sync4j/Wiki.jsp?page=Sync4jLDAPConnector
> 
> 
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