Re: Multiple Resources in kabc

On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 08:54:44AM -0400, Mike Pilone wrote:
> Well,
> 
> It looks like people are starting to look at developing multiple resources 
> for kabc, so this raises the question of how to properly use them.
> 
> My thought was to implement a kcmodule to allow the user to choose the 
> resource. This would be either File, SQL, or LDAP. For starters we would 
> only allow a single resource (for r/w). This would be saved in a kabcrc 
> file and would be honored by the StdAddressBook::instance() method to load 
> the proper resources. This would allow all applications using kabc to 
> transparently support LDAP, SQL, File, etc.
> 
> Once this is functional, it would be nice to add multiple read resources and 
> a single write resource.
In this case we have to add a resource pointer to addressee, otherwise we
can't distinguish what addressee is from what source. This distinction
is necessary to save only the addressee entries from write resource.

Any objections against adding
        Resource *resource;
to Addressee::AddresseeData?

Ciao,
Tobias
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