[SyncEvolution] [INFO] SoupTransport Failure

[Eric O'Connor]

Thank you, all. I now have a configuration working.

My particular style of daftness was not realizing that
"syncURL=local://@webdav" refers to a different config than any of:
"zoho-addr", "zoho at webdav", or "target-config at zoho", and so of course
there was no datastore configured.

This is all clearly explained in "SYNCHRONIZATION BEYOND SYNCML", line
932 of the manual.

Sorry for the noise,
Eric


-----Original Message-----

Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 20:34:03 +0100
Subject: Re: [SyncEvolution] [INFO] SoupTransport Failure
Cc: syncevolution at syncevolution.org
To: Eric O'Connor <eric at oco.nnor.org>
From: Patrick Ohly <patrick.ohly at intel.com>
On Fri, 2017-01-13 at 16:19 -0700, Eric O'Connor wrote:
> > Which documentation did you follow to get started?
> 
> I'm going off of the man page for syncevolution.
> 
> > It takes two commands to set up CardDAV syncing: once for the
> > target
> 
> side (where CardDAV is used as storage) and once for the local side
> (with EDS, Akonadi or plain files as local storage).
> 
> How do you "link" the two?

With syncURL=local://@webdav.


> I now have a carddav config "remote", and an
> evolution config "local", but how do I run the "remote" <-> "local"
> combined config?

Are these "target config" and "sync config" (as described in the man
page under "SYNCHRONIZATION BEYOND SYNCML" or datastore configurations?


> I think I need to do this manually, because I don't see a template
> for
> Evolution mail.
> 
> I don't understand where in the man page it tells me how to do that.

The relevant example is this (from CALDAV AND CARDDAV):

        The  following  commands  set up synchronization with a generic
        WebDAV server that supports CalDAV, CardDAV and scanning
        starting at the root of the server.
        
          # configure target config
          syncevolution --configure \
                       --template webdav \
                       syncURL=http://example.com \
                       username=123456 \
                       "password=!@#ABcd1234" \
                       target-config at webdav

          # configure sync config
          syncevolution --configure \
                        --template SyncEvolution_Client \
                        syncURL=local://@webdav \
                        username= \
                        password= \
                        webdav \
                        calendar addressbook

          # initial slow sync
          syncevolution --sync slow webdav

In your case, you seem to be only interested in CardDAV, so let's focus
on just contacts. The commands in your case should be something like
this:

# set up access to zoho.com
syncevolution --configure \
              --template webdav \
              syncURL=https://contacts.zoho.com/carddav/eric@oco.nnor.o
rg/default/ \
              username='eric at oco.nnor.org password='xxxxxxxx' \
              target-config at zoho

# double-check access
syncevolution --print-items target-config at zoho addressbook

# configure sync config, enabling only addressbook
syncevolution --configure \
              --template SyncEvolution_Client \
              syncURL=local://@webdav \
              username= \
              password= \
              zoho \
              addressbook

# double-check local access
syncevolution --print-items zoho addressbook

# Now "zoho addressbook" is matched with "target-config at zoho
addressbook"
# and we can sync the two:
syncevolution --sync slow zoho

# All following syncs are incremental:
syncevolution zoho


> I now am getting:
> 
> ➤ syncevolution --run ev-local-addr
> ...
> [INFO] @default/addressbook: using configured database=zoho-backend
> [ERROR] sending message to child failed:
> org.syncevolution.gdbuscxx.Exception: 1483751134.3343.16 at tara/address
> bo
> ok: datastore not configured
> ...

I'm not sure what you configured to get to this point. As your local
~/.config/syncevolution might be in an unclean state now, it might be
worthwhile to throw it away (you don't have any other configs, do you?)
with "rm -rf ~/.config/syncevolution" before running the commands
above.