[Chandler-dev] Re: [Cosmo-dev] Recurrence modifications, filters, and diffs

[Morgen Sagen]

On Feb 9, 2007, at 6:19 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:

> On 2/9/07, Jeffrey Harris <jeffrey at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>> Brian and I decided it was time for faster back and forth, so we  
>> moved
>> this conversation to IRC, a transcript is:
>>
>> http://wiki.osafoundation.org/script/getIrcTranscript.cgi? 
>> date=20070209&channel=cosmo&startTime=1548&endTime=1700
>
> and then we talked about it lots more, and boiled it all down to this:
>
> there are really three states for a modification attribute:
>
> * has a value: <noteMod:reminderTime>thevalue</noteMod:reminderTime>
> * has no value (None in python, null in java):  
> <noteMod:reminderTime />
> * is "missing": <noteMod:reminderTime eim:missing="true" />
>
> only modification attributes can be "missing". this state tells
> chandler and the cosmo ui that the attribute should be inherited from
> the master item. it tells cosmo to copy the attribute value from the
> master when exporting the modification to icalendar for caldav.
>
> alarms on event modifications can also be "missing".
>
> the challenge for cosmo in 0.6.1 is how to persist this "missing"  
> state.
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Sounds good.  To be precise, did you mean eim:missing="true" or  
missing="true"?

Thanks,
~morgen