Here's an instruction and patch how to use caldavzap with the baikal server (or probably any sabedav based server)
Hi,
here's how to use caldavzap with the baikal server (or probably any sabredav based server).
I'd recommend to include it somewhere as configuration example (e.g. caldavzap/misc/readme_baikal_sabredav.txt).
I'll attach the following "readme_baikal_sabredav.txt" and the patch.
PROBLEM: --------
caldavzap reads and saves session settings persistently in the caldav server by PROPPATCH / PROPFIND in a principal property '{http://inf-it.com/ns/dav/%7Dsettings'.
Unfortunately, sabredav and sabredav based caldav servers... - do not provide access to new or non-standard properties - do not provide write access to principal properties with PROPPATCH
SOLUTION: ---------
An ideal and clean solution would be a sabredav plugin which allows creation and access to arbitrary new principal properties. Since such a plugin doesn't exist, I'll show here a hack which modifies baikal to just provide the specific principal property '{http://inf-it.com/ns/dav/%7Dsettings' which is needed by caldavzap.
The following steps apply to baikal 0.2.7 but should be applicable to any sabredav based server.
1. modify your sql databse: add a text type database entry to the principals table which will hold the settings. This can be done by sql commands or by using a gui frontend for your database. I've named this text field 'inf_it_settings'. Example: the sqlite structure of the principals table should then look like this: CREATE TABLE 'principals' ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY ASC, uri TEXT, email TEXT, displayname TEXT, vcardurl TEXT, inf_it_settings TEXT, UNIQUE(uri) )
2. apply the patch baikal-flat-0.2.7-for-caldavzap.diff to patch the baikal server. This patch does two things:
a) it modifies vendor/sabre/dav/lib/Sabre/DAVACL/PrincipalBackend/PDO.php to map requests for the property '{http://inf-it.com/ns/dav/%7Dsettings' to the newly created database field inf_it_settings (see above 1.)
b) it modifies vendor/sabre/dav/lib/Sabre/DAVACL/Principal.php to give write access to principal properties ('write' includes 'write-properties').
best
Thanks Johannes,
both your files will be included in 0.10.0.2 (I will release it today or tomorrow).
JM
On 16 Feb 2014, at 17:15, Dr. Johannes Zellner johannes@zellner.org wrote:
Hi,
here's how to use caldavzap with the baikal server (or probably any sabredav based server).
I'd recommend to include it somewhere as configuration example (e.g. caldavzap/misc/readme_baikal_sabredav.txt).
I'll attach the following "readme_baikal_sabredav.txt" and the patch.
PROBLEM:
caldavzap reads and saves session settings persistently in the caldav server by PROPPATCH / PROPFIND in a principal property '{http://inf-it.com/ns/dav/%7Dsettings'.
Unfortunately, sabredav and sabredav based caldav servers...
- do not provide access to new or non-standard properties
- do not provide write access to principal properties with PROPPATCH
SOLUTION:
An ideal and clean solution would be a sabredav plugin which allows creation and access to arbitrary new principal properties. Since such a plugin doesn't exist, I'll show here a hack which modifies baikal to just provide the specific principal property '{http://inf-it.com/ns/dav/%7Dsettings' which is needed by caldavzap.
The following steps apply to baikal 0.2.7 but should be applicable to any sabredav based server.
- modify your sql databse:
add a text type database entry to the principals table which will hold the settings. This can be done by sql commands or by using a gui frontend for your database. I've named this text field 'inf_it_settings'. Example: the sqlite structure of the principals table should then look like this: CREATE TABLE 'principals' ( id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY ASC, uri TEXT, email TEXT, displayname TEXT, vcardurl TEXT, inf_it_settings TEXT, UNIQUE(uri) )
- apply the patch baikal-flat-0.2.7-for-caldavzap.diff to patch the baikal server.
This patch does two things:
a) it modifies vendor/sabre/dav/lib/Sabre/DAVACL/PrincipalBackend/PDO.php to map requests for the property '{http://inf-it.com/ns/dav/%7Dsettings' to the newly created database field inf_it_settings (see above 1.)
b) it modifies vendor/sabre/dav/lib/Sabre/DAVACL/Principal.php to give write access to principal properties ('write' includes 'write-properties').
best
-- Johannes
<readme_baikal_sabredav.txt><baikal-flat-0.2.7-for-caldavzap.diff>
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