This sections lists stuff that does not directly affects functionality but rather the quality of the code
Once the current code makes it to CVS people should give it a try and check if it works. If not, the xml in /tmp/sync/, the horde log and the php error log should be helpful. If you can provide a patch to make it work: great!
Otherwise mail the offending xml and/or logs to the list. I'll have a look at it.
As many phones/pdas/whater should be thrown at the code. I'm especially interested to see the <devinf> device information section that the phones sends in its initial packet. This gets stored in /tmp/sync/syncml_client_0.xml when you start with an empty /tmp/sync/ dir.
Make sure to modify the <cred>...</cred> part in the SyncML header if it exists. It contains your username and password.
I'll try to come up with a brief "how to help with debugging" and add it to the installation docs. Otherwise we might get lots of "just installed the horde rpm and SyncML doesn't work with my XXYY phone! pls hlp!!!! I'm new to linux!!!!!" messages :-)
The second main area where I expect problems are the various implementations of the text/x-vcalendar,vcard,... formats flying around. Basically something like
BEGIN:VNOTE VERSION:1.1 BODY: Here's a quick note END:VNOTE
SyncML itself doesn't understand these things: it just passes them around between the phone and the external horde api "as they come".
If you have tricky stuff like recurring events, inline photos or other exotic data in the file (or got them "treated" by Outlook), horde or your phone might quickly get a hickup. So we need to test as many of these formats as we can get our hands on.
This is more of a general horde issue than about SyncML. You can test the behaviour by trying to import/export files with this ical/vcard data into kronolith/nag/turba using their respective import/export menu entries. That should use the same codebase.
Right now as I'm writing this, I've noticed Jan creating a framework/iCalendar/tests/charset1.phpt test file. Excellent!
Of course the SyncML code is far from being finished. Here are a few things that need work besides the stuff directly coming fomr I or II. (relevant modules are mentioned in brackets)
The current codebase is somewhat confusing and hard to deal with. I'll try to refactor it to make it easier for other people to jump in. Any help is appreciated. Especially suggestions about the best way to parse XML subtrees into PHP objects.
a) currently the horde api only supports listBy($action,$ts) to retrieve $actions since timestamp $ts. The SyncML protocol requires that the ending timestamp of the sync timeframe to be exchanged _before_ the actual syncing starts. So we need an additional parameter:
listby($action,$ts,$ts_end)
b) the SyncML works as follows:
1) the clients sends its changes to the server
2) the server sends its changes to the client.
so when in step 2), the horde api is called with a request like "give me all changes in horde since the last sync", you get the changes induced by the client in step 1) as well. You have to somehow "tag" them to avoid echoing (and thus duplicatinging) them back to the client. Simply storing the guids in the session is not sufficient: the changes are made _after_ the end timestamp (see a)) of the current sync so you'll dupe them in the next sync. My current implementation deals with this as follows: directly after a client induced change is done in horde, state.php's gettsforAction is called to find out the biggest=latest ts for the given guid. If the horde api would provide me with this info directly (maybe just store it in a static var and provide a getLastTS() method in Driver), that would be great and eliminate costly and redundant DataTree calls. Similar in listBy where you get a list of guids but still need to retrieve the latest History timestamps for these guids manually using the DataTree so you can check out if the changes are a result of a client request or not. If listBy would return an assoc array $guid->ts that would help a lot (and solve a) as well).
Nobody has access to all the SyncML clients all the time. So there's a always the risk that you supply a fancy enhancement patch that works fine for you but breaks down everything for everyone else. So it would be great to have a "testing suite" (in JUNIT terms) which simulates sync runs for all supported phones. (Maybe done by sending specifically crafted XML files based on the logging data of various phones and checking the results). Before a commit of a new patch a test run is done with this suite to ensure it doesn't break things up. Just an idea (dream) for now, suggestions how this could be done are welcome.