[PATCH 4/9] Re: Inherit LocalStatusSQLFolder from LocalStatusFolder

[Sebastian Spaeth]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:27:42 +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht <nicolas.s-dev at laposte.net> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 12:31:35PM +0200, Sebastian Spaeth wrote:
> > 
> > - Inherit LocalStatusSQLFolder from LocalStatusFolder
> > 
> > - This lets us remove all functions that are available via our ancestors
> >   classes and are not needed.
> > 
> > - Don't fail if pysql import fails. Fail rather at runtime when needed.
> > 
> > - When creating the db file, create a metadata table which contains the
> >   format version info, so we can upgrade nicely to other formats.
> 
> <...>
> 
> > -    def getfullname(self):
> > -        return self.filename
> > +        # testing the existence of the db file won't work. It is created
> > +        # as soon as this class instance was intitiated. So say it is a
> > +        # new folder when there are no messages at all recorded in it.
> > +        return self.getmessagecount() > 0
> 
> I'm surprised. Is getfullname() used for _testing_ the existence? Is the
> name of this method so fucked up?

I am surprised now as well. I won't have time to look into this now, but
wil do before the next revision. getfullname is never used for
LocalStatus folders, I believe, but it is also one of those functions
without any code documentation in folder/Base.py, so it's not clear what
it is *supposed* to return :-). We certainly don't want to check for
existence in getfullname(), we do that in  "isnewfolder(self)". I will
have to check that.

> Oh, yeah! It's a much better migration plan but we still need more
> advanced.  :-)

We can of course migrate the plain text status into the sqlite version,
I was just thinking that recreating the sqlite cache from scratch during
the next sync would be much easier code wise. Especially, since we mark
this optional and experimental :).

But we can do proper migration code, no problem.

Sebastian
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