There is already a putback underway that people
are working on (Candice, John & Martin have put
loads of work in) primarily involved around the
refactoring and changes to interfaces.
Wanted to get feedback around a second putback.
A second round putback is necessary to complete
the framework and add functionality. This should
have minial impact on dependent code since very
little interface methods have changed (can't
envisage on those that have).
The proposed putback items are presented below,
some of these are actual functionality which
may not be accessible by the GUI because changes
are required but may be used by scriptable agents
and brought to life by hand editing the prefs.js
file:
o Factory instantiation of address books
- Allow for independent instantiation
of address books that need implementation
specific instantion code.
- nsIAbDirectory interface modified to
remove methods associated with the
preferences.
o Query interfaces
o Linear Query implementation (currently synchronous)
- Slow search a bit like the existing autocompletion
for address books that do not support the query
interfaces
o Outlook/MAPI address book including query
implementation (currently synchronous)
- Full outlook address book implementation,
(but prob. without listening)
Users will be able to enable access to all
outlook address books by adding some
preferences to the prefs.js file.
o LDAP Query implementation helper class using
LDAP components.
Can be used by Organisational and Personal
LDAP address books. Thus a directory implementation
only needs to inherit from the helper class to
get query support.
o Organisational LDAP address book. Very simple
implementation since many of the directory
methods do not need to be implemented because
only the query functionality is really used.
If all of these can be combined into a second
patch then it brings enterpise level functionality
so damn close i can almost smell it! some extra
things are require as per a previous post.
Not all items are complete yet but we are nearly
there... and it would be great if we could get this
ready/reviewed to go into the code tree before 0.8.1
gate closes.
Thanks,
Paul.
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