CardDAV support for owncloud / sabredav plus external IMAP provider

[arved]

Based on the CardDAV code of ziirish there is an working CardDAV backend for owncloud / SabreDAV. (see issue #80 / #76 / #47/ #71 )

to support my szenario there is a need to support external email provider with complete email address as loginname Owncloud, can not handle Email adresses as usernamens. To use PHP-Push-2 in this requirement I've added some code

[magcks]

Updates on contacts on my mobile phone are not syncing with ownCloud with your soulution.

[arved]

can you give me more infromation about your Environment? I've had a similar issue on a Galaxy Note 2. For unknown reasons the phone doesn't push calendar changes immediately. the ActiveSync Server does not "see" any requests regarding a contact update. After some time (about 10 min) or a reboot of the device the changes a anounced and synced. Can you confirm this behavior?

[arved]

second effect I cloud observe is: if you create a contact on the phone, after a sync cycle there are two indetical contacts. but one is only local. this seems to be a Problem in the WEBXML part, because the phone does not get back the Client ID of the entry after the contact is replicated. so the phone creates a new one, which ist merged with the old one. If you Change only the local contact changes are never replicated.

[magcks]

Thanks for your reply.

I am using Android 4.2 (Cyanogenmod 10.1) on my Galaxy Nexus.

Before I've used PHP-Push-2 I tried oczpush (https://github.com/gza/oczpush) but I had Problems with the calendar sync on my Timezone (Europe/Berlin). There happened crazy things with it BUT the constact sync worked perfectly. So it think the problem is not the Phone.

Anyway Z-Push receives the changes: https://gist.github.com/justbrain/52e1faf4b025b29e8a0d (I changed the name of the contact from "Kai" to "Kaii" and added an organisation.)

[arved]

I have to do some more investigation on this, this may take some time

[magcks]

I've just tested it:

• If I create a new contact on my phone the contact will be synced successfully with ownCloud.
• If I change this contact on owncloud it will not be synced with Android: Android syncs the old one with ownCloud so I have a new version of the contact and a old version in ownCloud and only the old version on Android.

Take your time :) Tanks for fixing it.

[magcks]

Yeeeeaaah, I think it works with your last commit. Thank you veeeery much!

I have added some code (probably on the wrong method) to set the FN-section of VCard if it is empty (a better solution would be keeping the old one). This happens (with my phone) if I update the name of a contact. In ownCloud I see a empty string or "{name}" instead of the name ({name} seems to be the ownCloud representation for an empty name).

https://gist.github.com/justbrain/5967587

[magcks]

I just found another bug: If a contact has multiple Groups a new group will be created on the phone ("Group1,Group2") instead of putting the contact the Group "Group1" and "Group2" separately.

[arved]

should we move this discussion to this place https://github.com/arved/PHP-Push-2-owncloud/ ? I've just created the two issues there.

[magcks]

I think this is a good idea, because here we mix several issues into one.